Definition of "lifebuoy" [lifebuoy]

• Alternative spelling of life-buoy. (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "In a MOB situation the lifebuoy is the most important item of first intervention."
• "In the hours and days that followed the terrorist attacks on London, the Hyman family clung to that phone call like a lifebuoy, desperately telling themselves the call had come after 9.49am, the moment when 18-year-old Hasib Hussain blew himself up on the upper deck of a number 30 bus to Hackney."
• "Is this yet another straw being grasped by that sorry gang of ill-trained cowboys, drowning in their sea of lies and excuses -- or is it a lifebuoy?"