"danger zone" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: danger zones [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} danger zone (plural danger zones)
  1. A specifically hazardous place to be avoided, usually demarcated, such as an area with anti-personnel mines Translations (hazardous place): faresone [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), faresone [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), farozon [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-danger_zone-en-noun-UPcNjMZz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 56 44 Disambiguation of 'hazardous place': 100 0
  2. (figuratively) the genitals Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-danger_zone-en-noun-qdRsccxj

Inflected forms

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