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drop-call

drop-call is the alternative spelling of drop call.

Meaning of drop call

Verb

drop call (third-person singular simple present drop calls, present participle drop calling, simple past and past participle drop called)

  1. (transitive) To contact someone by telephone and then hang up right after the call has connected.
    • "Have you got your phone? I'll give you my number." […] I looked back at my friends as Sam typed her number into my phone, […] I drop-called her and we said goodbye, […]2019, Kate Davies, In at the Deep End, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 69

Forms of drop-call

third-person singular presentdrop-calls
present participledrop-calling
past participledrop-called
pastdrop-called

Questions about drop-call

What is drop-call the alternative spelling of?
Drop-call is the alternative spelling of drop call.

Words near drop-call in the dictionary

  1. drop-boxes
  2. drop-by
  3. drop-bys
  4. drop-cake
  5. drop-cakes
  6. drop-call
  7. drop-called
  8. drop-calling
  9. drop-calls
  10. drop-crotch
  11. drop-crotched

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