Usually means: React hastily in stressful situations.
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  1. press the panic button: Merriam-Webster
  2. press the panic button: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. press the panic button: Collins English Dictionary
  4. press the panic button: Wiktionary
  5. press the panic button: Dictionary.com
  6. press the panic button: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. press the panic button: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (press the panic button)

verb:  (idiomatic) To start to panic.

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