noun
1. One way to say: "Help! My ship or airplane is going down," in a way that anyone can understand, regardless of language, because it is an international radiotelephone signal word.*
Politicians' unfounded attacks on one another are political code for mayday, when they think their own chances at winning office are sinking.
Synonyms: alert, caution, forewarning, SOS, warning.
* The word was thought up by a guy, named Frederick Stanley Mockford, as a distress signal. He adapted it from the French m'aider (help me).
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