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单词 blank call
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blank call
blank call n. a telephone call in which the caller does not speak; now (chiefly Indian English) such a telephone call made to threaten, annoy, or harass its recipient (cf. nuisance call n. at nuisance n. and adj. Compounds 2).
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1957 Observer 10 Nov. 3/3 They [sc. the Samaritans] have an average of a hundred calls a day including a number of ‘blank calls’..[from] people who..never talk.
1996 Times of India 8 Apr. a5 The..telephone exchange here receives 4 to 5 fresh complaints every day from subscribers who get malicious or blank calls... Offenders often call and hold on without saying anything.
2014 S. P. Zaheer My Carpet of Rainbows iii. ii. 308 It was a blank call. Why the hell will a kidnapper make a blank call!
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