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missed-call

missed-call is the alternative form of missed call.

Meaning of missed call

Verb

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

  1. To deliberately terminate a call before the recipient answers in order to communicate a pre-agreed message.
    • Missed-call me when you get to the meeting point!
    Synonyms:
    prank

See all 3 meanings of missed call

Forms of missed-call

third-person singular presentmissed-calls
present participlemissed-calling
past participlemissed-called
pastmissed-called

Questions about missed-call

What is missed-call the alternative form of?
Missed-call is the alternative form of missed call.

Words near missed-call in the dictionary

  1. missed the mark
  2. missed the memo
  3. missed the point
  4. missed the wood for the trees
  5. missed the woods for the trees
  6. missed-call
  7. missee
  8. misseeing
  9. misseek
  10. misseeking
  11. misseeks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: missed-call (page history and authors); missed call (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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