five-alarm

English

Adjective

five-alarm (not comparable)

1. (firefighting) The highest priority category of a multiple-alarm fire.

   Hypernym: multialarm

2. Having a high intensity or extreme heat.
   • 2013, Ed Kovacs, Burnt Black: A Cliff St. James Novel‎^[1], →ISBN, page 17:

     Instead, I only worked the Five Alarm cases—high-profile murders—and for those I exclusively partnered with Honey.

   • 2007, Steve Rushin, The Caddie Was a Reindeer: And Other Tales of Extreme Recreation‎^[2], →ISBN, page 304:

     And the hundred-thirty-pound Rich LeFevre, in six hundred seconds, inhaled one and a half gallons of five-alarm chili.