callout (third-person singular simple presentcalls out,present participlecalling out,simple past and past participlecalled out)
- (transitive, idiomatic) Tospecify, especially indetail.
Theycall out 304 stainless steel in the drawing, but the part was made from aluminum.
- (transitive, idiomatic) Toorder into service; tosummon into service.
- Synonym:summon
The Governorcalled out the National Guard.
- 1984,Nena,99 Red Balloons (lyrics written byKevin McAlea)
- Ninety-nine Decision Street
Ninety-nine ministers meet
To worry, worry, super scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
- (intransitive, transitive) Toyell out; tovocalizeaudibly;announce.
- 1971, Carole King, “You’ve Got A Friend”,Tapestry, Ode Records
- You justcall out my name / And you know wherever I am / I'll come running to see you again.
- Tochallenge (someone).
- (transitive, archaic) To challenge (someone) to a duel.
- (transitive, slang) To challenge (someone) to a fight.
- (transitive, idiomatic, colloquial) Tocriticize ordenounce (someone); tobring up previously unspoken criticisms about (someone); topoint out (someone's) faults.
- Synonyms:denounce,point out,charge
He was very insulting. Finally Jackcalled himout and shut him up.
Shecalled themout on their lies.
2022 January 26, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Government's IRP claims condemned as "dishonest"”, inRAIL, number949, page 7:He added: "We've always had spin, especially from Government. But this is not spin. This is dishonesty and so it's our rail media's urgent responsibility tocall itout because non-specialist journalists across the country will report this and gradually these untruths will be accepted.
- (intransitive, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut) To contact one'sworkplace and announce that one is unable to attend work. Regionalism short forcall out sick; much more commonly:call in sick.[1]
2012, Earliecia J. Ebron,Regress:I had tocall out from work.[…] I barely ate yesterday. The only thing that stayed in my stomach was soup and crackers.
2015, Brasford Love,My Life: The Journey to Here:I had tocall out from work a few Saturdays to Dj at kid's party because they would normally start somewhere around 4:00 p.m.
2015, Pearley Rufus-Lusan,The Baby Boomer Nurse:On this particular day, I felt ill, mostly from exhaustion, and had tocall out from work. This callout caused a stir and a display of animosity.
- Bus operators are said to "call out" a stop when they announce that it will be the next available stop; synonyms ofcall out are not typically used.
to order into service; to summon into service
to contact one's workplace and announce that one is unable to attend work
—see alsocall in sickcallout (pluralcall outs)
- Misspelling ofcallout.
- “call out”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
