call an audible
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.45 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To change the play at the line of scrimmage by yelling out a new one.
Example Sentences
- "Mr. Krosnick explained with the help of a football analogy. "If somebody called an audible, we'd be right there[…]It has always been that way. We never did that much planning. All the talk and analysis was intended to outline the parameters of our instincts.""
- ""We will be calling audibles every time we come to the line," one participant recalls [Condoleezza Rice] saying to [Bush] then."
- "We found this insurgency much more virile than we expected, so we called an audible."
- "Based on that decoding process, we may need to call an audible and either fine-tune or change channels in an attempt to help teenagers decode our messages more accurately."
- "I reflected on what must have been their instructions, and what would have been the consequences for them of not following them, or of calling an audible, not a concept known in the North Korean foreign ministry."
Usage
- American usage