drop call
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editCompare drop (“to come to an end; to stop”) as in the call dropped.
Verb
editdrop call (third-person singular simple present drop calls, present participle drop calling, simple past and past participle drop called)
- To contact someone by telephone and then hang up right after the call has connected.
- 2023, NJ Mackay, The Quiet Dead, London: Hera Books, →ISBN, page [141]:
- He asks for my number, before he forgets, and drop-calls me so I can save his.
See also
edit- “drop call”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.