Call
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Call-and-Response Song: The song "Jonah's Band Party" that Douglass sings with his grandmother is called this, even though the racist stage directions of this play describe it as "Call" and "Sponse".
Source: Theatre / In Abraham's Bosom - Also, Scum actually is what they call themselves— they adopted the name everyone else was already using to describe them as a way of flipping everyone else the metaphorical bird.
Source: Useful Notes / Romani - Downer Beginning: What else do you call a fic where the opening paragraphs describe the city getting nuked, even if that hasn't actually happened yet, maybe?
Source: Fan Fic / An End To All Things
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