call back

Meaning

1. Oxford78% of films

   to telephone sb again or to telephone sb who telephoned you earlier

   "You have to call back tomorrow morning."

2. Editorial11% of films

   to demand or arrange the return of money or something already handed over

3. Editorial11% of films

   to summon a person to come back

In the movies · 19

• "You have to call back tomorrow morning."Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father2008
• Mr. Woodward, Ken Clawson calling back.All the President's Men1976
• Tell me Albert Torena called back.Heat1995
• They'll call back.Pride2014
• I'll call back tomorrow.The Help2011
• Give me a call back.The Butterfly Effect2004
• And I'll call back in a matter...Changeling2008
• Call back tomorrow.Miracle Mile1989

Learn it in full scenes

• All the President's Men1976
  • Police Arrest the Watergate Burglars
  • Woodward Traces the White House Call
  • Who Gets the Watergate Story

From the same entry

• call bluff
• call into play
• call into question
• call it a day
• call it quits
• call names
• call the shots
• call a spade a spade
• call time
• call to account
• call to order
• on the carpet

More phrasal verbs

• fuck up
• mess up
• blow up
• look back
• move out
• live up to
• find out
• go back
• come from
• look at
• fuck off
• think about