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call

1. n. a decision; a prediction. The market behaved just as you said it would. Good call.

2. tv. to challenge someone. I called him, but he ignored me.

3. n. the early effects of a drug; the beginning of a rush; a rush. (Drugs.) You may not get the call on this stuff for twenty minutes or more.

call

in/into question

To raise doubts about.

See:

• a call girl
• a clarion call
• a close call
• a close shave
• a judgment call
• a place to call own
• a port of call
• a wake-up call
• above and beyond
• above and beyond the call of duty
• answer the call
• answer the call of nature
• at (one's) beck and call
• at beck and call
• at someone's beck and call
• be (someone's) call
• be at (one's) beck and call
• be at beck and call
• be brought to account
• beck and call
• beyond the call of duty
• booty call
• bring to heel
• call
• call (one's) own
• call (one's) shots
• call (someone) to heel
• call a halt
• call a halt to
• call a meeting
• call a meeting to order and call the meeting to order
• call a spade a spade
• call about
• Call again
• call all the shots
• call around
• call at some place
• call attention to
• call away
• call back
• call bluff
• call by a name
• call down
• call earl
• call for
• call forth
• call forward
• call girl
• call hogs
• call house
• call hughie
• call in
• call in chips
• call in question
• call in sick
• call into
• call into question
• call it a day
• call it a night
• call it even
• call it quits
• Call my service
• call names
• Call no man happy till he dies
• call of duty
• call of nature
• call off
• call off the dogs
• call on
• call on the carpet
• call one's own
• call out
• call over
• call ralph
• call roll
• call ruth
• call shotgun
• call someone out
• call someone's bluff
• call square
• call the
• call the dogs off
• call the shots
• call the tune
• call to
• call to account
• call to attention
• call to mind
• call to order
• call to the bar
• call together
• call up
• call upon
• call upon (someone)
• called to straw
• call-girl
• can't call soul own
• cattle call
• CF The CF is from the so-called NATO Phonetic Alphabet.
• Charlie Foxtrot
• clarion call
• close call
• close shave
• cold call
• Could I call you?
• Could I have call you?
• crank letter
• cry ruth
• desperate times call for desperate measures
• Don’t call us, we’ll call you
• don't call us, we'll call you
• Don't call us, we'll call you.
• drastic times call for drastic measures
• first port of call
• give a ring
• Give me a call
• go above and beyond duty
• Good call!
• have a close shave
• have a minute to call own
• have first call on
• He who pays the piper calls the tune
• I'll call back later
• issue a call for
• judgment call
• last call
• Let's call it a day
• Many are called but few are chosen
• nature’s call
• no call for
• no salesman will call
• not able to call time own
• on call
• pay a call
• pay a call on
• place to call (one's) own
• port of call
• put in layaway
• so-called
• taking calls
• Time to call it a day
• Time to call it a night
• to call own
• too close to call
• tough call
• wake-up call
• who calls the shots here?
• within call
• You called?