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词组 call
释义 call
verb
call Earl
to vomit US
  • — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 93, 1968
call for a cab
(of a jockey) to make jerky arm movements as he battles to remain in the saddle UK
  • Sunday Telegraph, 13 August 1961
  • — Ned Wallish, The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 12, 1989
call for Herb
to vomit AUSTRALIA, 1984
An echoic play on the sounds produced by a sudden expulsion of vomit.▶ call for Hughie
to vomit UK, 1974
Onomatopoeic play on Hughie as the involunatary sounds of vomiting. A joke current in the 1970s described getting drunk on green crème de menthe and calling for television personality Hughie Green (1920–97).
  • — Ann Barr and Peter York, The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook, p. 158, 1982
call for the butter
to have completed a task or arrived at your destination US
Fishing skippers who claimed the ability to locate fish by the taste of the bottom mud would smear butter on a lead weight, lower it to the bottom, and then taste the mud brought to the surface on the buttered lead.
  • — John Gould, Maine Lingo, p. 30, 1975
call hogs
to snore US
  • — Kenn “Naz” Young, Naz’s Underground Dictionary, p. 19, 1973
call it on
to challenge another gang to a gang fight US
  • New York Times, p. 2, 15 May 1955
call Ralph
to vomit US
  • — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 1, Spring 1983
call someone full-mouth
to address your elder without using an honourific Mr or Mrs GUYANA
  • — Richard Allsopp, Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, p. 131, 1995
call someone raw
to address your elder without using an honourific Mr or Mrs ANGUILLA
  • — Richard Allsopp, Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, p. 131, 1995
call the shots
to be in a position of power; to direct the actions of others US, 1967
  • Sexism: who’s calling the shots? — Observer, 29 June 2003
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