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call outta one's name en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of call out of one's name.
    • Because of this, there would always be problems with someone's parents for “Calling dem outta dey name!” 2012, Seymour Tally Davis, The McKnight I Knew, page 30:
    • It was not a way of calling a Black person outta they name but used simply as a way of referring to a person who was racially Black. 2012, H. Samy Alim, Geneva Smitherman, Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
called outta one's name Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
called outta one's name Tense=Past lexicographic
calls outta one's name Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
calling outta one's name Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic