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calls someone's number

calls someone's number is the third-person singular simple present indicative of call someone's number.

Meaning of call someone's number

Verb

call someone's number (third-person singular simple present calls someone's number, present participle calling someone's number, simple past and past participle called someone's number)

  1. To be assigned to carry the ball at the start of a play.
    • So on the first play, I asked the quarterback to call my number on an end sweep.2002, Rich Wolfe, Kurt Warner: And the Last Shall Be First, →ISBN, page 229
  2. (broadly, idiomatic) To focus on someone, asking them to prove themselves.
    • I am glad to have that comment, Sir. I think you have about called our number on that.1969, Annmarie Hauck Walsh, The urban challenge to government
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see call, number.
    • He called her number on his cell phone.2005, Wanjiru Waithaka, The Unbroken Spirit, →ISBN, page 218

Questions about calls someone's number

What is calls someone's number the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Calls someone's number is the third-person singular simple present indicative of call someone's number.

Words near calls someone's number in the dictionary

  1. calls roll
  2. calls round
  3. calls someone every name in the book
  4. calls someone everything but a child of God
  5. calls someone's bluff
  6. calls someone's number
  7. calls the shots
  8. calls the tune
  9. calls them as one sees them
  10. calls time
  11. calls to

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