call out🔊

(idiomatic) To specify, especially in detail.

(idiomatic) To order into service; to summon into service. +

To yell out; to vocalize audibly; announce.

To challenge (someone).

(archaic) To challenge (someone) to a duel.

(slang) To challenge (someone) to a fight.

(colloquial) To criticize or denounce (someone); to bring up previously unspoken criticisms about (someone); to point out (someone's) faults.

(Connecticut) To contact one's workplace and announce that one is unable to attend work. Regionalism short for call out sick; much more commonly: call in sick.[https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/call-in-sick-or-call-out-sick ‘Call in Sick’ or ‘Call out Sick’? | Grammar Girl]

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