pocket dial

pocket dial

1. verb To inadvertently make a phone call by accidentally sitting or otherwise pressing on one's phone (typically when it is in one's pocket). A: "Do you know why Grandma called me last night?" B: "Oh, I think she just pocket dialed you."
2. noun The act of making such a phone call. I was excited when Jill called me for the first time in months, but she didn't actually want to talk to me—it was just a pocket dial.
See also: dial, pocket
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • call (one) on (something)
  • call on
  • get on the phone
  • be on the phone
  • be on the telephone/phone
  • on the phone
  • mail (something) to (one)
  • mail to
  • be a great one for (doing something)
  • be a great one for something/for doing something
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