0 a button on an alarm clock (= a clock for waking you up) that you press after it has woken you up, so that you can sleep for a few minutes more before being woken up again by the clock
She also loves to sleep, hates to be waken up, and considers mankind's greatest invention to be the snooze button on her alarm clock.
I liken our recent experience of public participation to that of an alarm clock; people tend to keep pressing the snooze button until they finally get the wake-up call.
We can either be alive to that call or hit the snooze button and slumber on.
