safety call
English
Noun
safety call (plural safety calls)
- (dating) A prescheduled phone call to another person who knows where one is and who one was going out with. A missed check-in (or using a pre-arranged code phrase for danger) signals one's contact person to call for help.
- 2008, Matthews, Lena, chapter 5, in Head over Heels: A Cinderella Story, →ISBN, page 47:
- He was her safety call, something she was supposed to have done over an hour ago.
- 2010, Olver, Kim, Secrets of Happy Couples: Loving Yourself, Your Partner and Your Life, →ISBN, LCCN 2010024023, LCC HQ801.O48 2010, page 22:
- A good safety call is one in which your contact person has as much information as possible.
- (billiards) A type of called shot where a shooting player does not have to continue their turn after pocketing one or more of their balls.
Synonyms
- (phone call): safecall
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