hold button

American  

noun

1. a button on a telephone that enables someone to interrupt an incoming call temporarily in order to answer another call.

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Example Sentences

His yes-but reply arrived in New York City just hours later, forcing the Pentagon to hit the hold button on its imminent air strike.

From Time Magazine Archive

"It's like a dream," sings Nixon, and suddenly the picture freezes, as if the hold button had been pressed on a VCR.

From Time Magazine Archive

He pressed the hold button on the weapons detector, so Tendai could take his Scout knife out with him.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

Miss Carol presses down the hold button and smiles.

From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake

He punched the hold button and rang for his secretary as Wallingford’s face vanished.

From Unwise Child by Garrett, Randall