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Definition of call out
call out
noun
- a person who has contacted their workplace and gotten the day off due to being sick.
We're short-staffed today because we've had a bunch of call outs.
Citation from 10% of TSA employees called out Sunday as shutdown continues, CNN, Eli Watkins, 21 January 2019 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.Last edited on Jan 21 2019. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jan 21 2019.
verb - intransitive
- to contact one's workplace and get the day off due to being sick.
He's already called out three times this month.
Citation from article title, CNN, Eli Watkins, 21 January 2019 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
Citation from 10% of TSA employees called out Sunday as shutdown continues, CNN, Eli Watkins, 21 January 2019 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.Last edited on Jan 21 2019. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jan 21 2019.
verb - transitive
- to verbally confront.
At the intervention, my mom called me out for partying with my brother.
Citation from Rookie Blue, "Signals Crossed", Season 1 Episode 4 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: to intimidate, scare, confront.
Last edited on Apr 19 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 20 2010.
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Other terms relating to 'to intimidate, scare, confront': | |
| Definitions include: to react with extreme emotion. | |
| Definitions include: to stare at a person in an aggressive way. | |
| Definitions include: an unpleasant woman; "bitch". | |
| Definitions include: to scare badly. | |
| Definitions include: to scare someone tremendously. | |
| Definitions include: interjection yelled at someone, typically after insulting them or beating them in some task. | |
| Definitions include: to stare at someone with an intimidating expression; "glare". | |
| Definitions include: to scare someone tremendously. | |
| Definitions include: to scare someone extremely bad; "scare the crap out of". | |
| Definitions include: to scare someone extremely bad; "scare the crap out of". | |
| Definitions include: to push around. | |
| Definitions include: to scare someone extremely bad; "scare the crap out of". | |
| Definitions include: to pretend to be someone else. | |
| Definitions include: to approach someone in a hostile manner. | |
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Other terms relating to 'call': | |
| Definitions include: a situation in which any outcome is equally likely. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "booty call"; hookup. | |
| Definitions include: a last-minute or previously unplanned request to meet up with someone with the intention of having sex (i.e. getting booty.) | |
| Definitions include: to claim ownership, at least temporarily. | |
| Definitions include: to recognize something for what it is. | |
| Definitions include: to vomit. | |
| Definitions include: to vomit. | |
| Definitions include: to reserve something for the next five minutes, while one is absent. | |
| Definitions include: to vomit. | |
| Definitions include: to vomit (noisily). | |
| Definitions include: a prostitute. | |
| Definitions include: to vomit. | |
| Definitions include: to stop performing a task. | |
| Definitions include: to go home and/or go to bed. | |
| Definitions include: a good solution to a problem | |
Other terms relating to 'out': | |
| Definitions include: the feeling when you defecate huge and your anus is stretched. | |
| Definitions include: fatigued after amphetamine use. | |
| Definitions include: very; really; extremely. | |
| Definitions include: to ask a person on a date. | |
| Definitions include: in an irreparably bad situation; "out of luck"; "screwed". | |
| Definitions include: to defecate; "poop". | |
| Definitions include: to get someone out of jail by posting bail. | |
| Definitions include: to tell on someone; "snitch". | |
| Definitions include: a session of getting baked (i.e. high from marijuana.) | |
| Definitions include: to leave. | |
| Definitions include: See also balls to the wall. | |
| Definitions include: to hit or cause bodily injury. | |
| Definitions include: to study to excess or to be over-competitive in school-work. | |
| Definitions include: to beat severely. | |
| Definitions include: to beat severely. | |
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