call outta one's name

English

Verb

call outta one's name (third-person singular simple present calls outta one's name, present participle calling outta one's name, simple past and past participle called outta one's name)

1. Alternative form of call out of one's name
   • 2012, Seymour Tally Davis, The McKnight I Knew, page 30:

     Because of this, there would always be problems with someone's parents for “Calling dem outta dey name!”

   • 2012, H. Samy Alim, Geneva Smitherman, Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.:

     It was not a way of calling a Black person outta they name but used simply as a way of referring to a person who was racially Black.