safety call

plural safety calls

1. datingA 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.

   We chit chat some small talk and I make my safety call.

   2006 August 10, Belle, “My first call”, in Belle's Blog, retrieved 15 Nov 2011

   4 more examples

   When it reaches those times during your meeting, no matter how well things are going, make your safety-call to let them know you're doing ok.

   2003 April 24, Naia, “Dear Dom: Scared Off-line”, in Bondage.com, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2011

   Kvam said Lozinski failed to make her "safety call" to say she was OK after meeting Chichester that day.

   2007 February 2, Robin Smith, “Families Battle For Custody Of Dog”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 07 Aug 2008

   He was her safety call, something she was supposed to have done over an hour ago.

   2008, Lena Matthews, chapter 5, in Head over Heels: A Cinderella Story, →ISBN, page 47

   A good safety call is one in which your contact person has as much information as possible.

   2010, Kim Olver, Secrets of Happy Couples: Loving Yourself, Your Partner and Your Life, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC HQ801.O48 2010, page 22

   Synonyms: safecall

2. ball gamesA type of called shot where a shooting player does not have to continue their turn after pocketing one or more of their balls.