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pocket-call

pocket-call is the alternative form of pocket call.

Meaning of pocket call

Verb

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

  1. (informal, transitive) To accidentally make a pocket call to (someone).
    • I pocket called the head coach one time and I left a voicemail that I didn't want him to hear.2016 August 31, Elle Halliwell, Sally Rawsthorne, “Glitz and glamour as stars attend the official launch of Spring Carnival at Australian Turf Club”, in The Daily Telegraph

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Forms of pocket-call

third-person singular presentpocket-calls
present participlepocket-calling
past participlepocket-called
pastpocket-called

Questions about pocket-call

What is pocket-call the alternative form of?
Pocket-call is the alternative form of pocket call.

Words near pocket-call in the dictionary

  1. pocket watched
  2. pocket watches
  3. pocket watching
  4. pocket-book
  5. pocket-books
  6. pocket-call
  7. pocket-called
  8. pocket-calling
  9. pocket-calls
  10. pocket-dial
  11. pocket-dials

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