| at someone's beck and call |
willing to fulfill or subject to another's commands or wishes. |
| bird call |
the cry or song of a bird. [3 definitions] |
| call a spade a spade |
to speak plainly or straightforwardly; speak the truth. |
| call box |
a box containing a telephone, posted on a street or highway, and used to make emergency calls. [2 definitions] |
| call for |
to stop by for; fetch. [3 definitions] |
| call girl |
a female prostitute who may be hired by telephone. |
| call it a day |
to end the day's work. |
| call it quits |
to stop an activity for the time being. [2 definitions] |
| call letters |
the identifying letters or numbers of a television or radio station. |
| call loan |
a loan that must be repaid on demand at any time. |
| call number |
a series of numbers or numbers and letters used to locate a book in a library. |
| call off |
to cancel (an appointment, action, event, or the like). |
| call-and-response |
of or pertaining to music that alternates between one player, singer, or section, and another in a pattern of statement and response. |
| call-in |
a telephone conversation between a listener or viewer and a radio or television host, which is broadcast on the host's show. [2 definitions] |
| call-up |
an order to a large number of people to report for active military duty. |
| close call |
(informal) a narrow escape from danger, failure, detection, or the like. |
| conference call |
a telephone conversation or discussion in which three or more people participate at the same time. |
| curtain call |
an invitation, communicated by an audience's appreciative applause, for performers to return to the stage after a performance has ended. |
| port of call |
a port where a ship regularly docks during the course of a longer voyage in order to load and unload passengers and cargo, make repairs, or the like. |
| roll call |
the reading aloud of a list of names of those expected to be present, such as students in a classroom, soldiers in a unit, or members at a meeting. [2 definitions] |