callout

noun11

1. •
   (US) A meeting or rally held in order to find interested participants, e.g. for an activity or sports team.

   • So many people attended the basketball callout that the coach decided to form two teams.
2. •
   A request for people to join or take part.

   • […] a callout for volunteers to fill hundreds of sandbags. — 2022
3. •
   An instance of being summoned to visit a certain place in order to provide assistance; an instance of summoning someone who is on call.

   • I had to pay for the callout of the plumber after the pipe burst.
4. •
   An annotation that pertains to a specific location in a body of text or a graphic, and that is visually linked to that location by a mark or a matching pair of marks.
5. •
   A form of verbal abuse with the intention of making the victim feel guilty.
6. •
   A pull quote: an excerpt from an article (such as in a news magazine) that is duplicated in a large font alongside the article so as to grab a reader's attention and indicate the article's topic.
7. •
   The act of calling out from work, i.e. announcing that one cannot attend; the act of calling in sick.

   • On this particular day, I felt ill, mostly from exhaustion, and had to call out from work. This callout caused a stir and a display of animosity. — 2015
8. •
   The invocation of an external third-party component.

   • One of the great benefits is that it allows you to perform callouts during trigger executions.
9. •
   (slang) An invitation to fight.
10. •
    An outgoing telephone call.
11. •
    A scheduled appointment for which a prisoner may go somewhere.

    • The chaplains here are now taking it upon themselves to remove certain prisoners from chapel call outs because of long hair, being gay, or for any other reason they want. — 1986