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drop call

verb

To contact someone by telephone and then hang up right after the call has connected.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person drop calls · participle present drop calling · participle past drop called · past drop called · alternative drop-call

transitiveTo contact someone by telephone and then hang up right after the call has connected.
He asks for my number, before he forgets, and drop-calls me so I can save his.
2023, NJ Mackay, The Quiet Dead, London: Hera Books, →ISBN, page [141]
2 more examples
"Have you got your phone? I'll give you my number." […] I looked back at my friends as Sam typed her number into my phone, […] I drop-called her and we said goodbye, […]
2019, Kate Davies, In at the Deep End, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 69
Waiting for the heads-up from Skimmer is killing me, but all I can do is wait patiently. […] Skimmer drop calls me and I head towards our meeting place.
2023, Rich Jones, Overseas Operations, StoryUp Media, →ISBN, page [46]

Origin

Compare drop (“to come to an end; to stop”) as in the call dropped.

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APA

drop call. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drop%20call

MLA

“drop call.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drop%20call. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “drop call,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drop%20call.

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