danger zone

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danger zone (plural danger zones)

1. A specifically hazardous place to be avoided, usually demarcated, such as an area with anti-personnel mines
   • 2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians.

2. (figuratively) the genitals
   • 1984, Cyndi Lauper, “She Bop”, in She's So Unusual:

     They say I better get a chaperone / Because I can't stop messing with the danger zone

• “danger zone”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.