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call letters

call letters noun: call sign.

Noun

call letters pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Call sign.
    • I left my smartphone on the kitchen counter alongside a notepad on which I scribbled in pen: Got called away for work. I love you. I signed it with my call-letter nickname, Echo.2019 September 17, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN

Questions about call letters

What does call letters mean?
Call letters means call sign.
What part of speech is call letters?
Call letters is a noun.

Words near call letters in the dictionary

  1. call it quits
  2. call it square
  3. call it stumps
  4. call leaf
  5. call leaves
  6. call letters
  7. call liquor
  8. call liquors
  9. call loan
  10. call loans
  11. call money

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