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mess call
noun
- a bugle call for mess.
Example Sentences
While some of the same people who helped get us into this housing mess call for Mr. DeMarco’s head, it’s instructive to see what Fannie and Freddie have done to help troubled homeowners — and to compare, where you can, the companies’ efforts with those of banks.
The bugler had just sounded mess call, and the soldiers in their neat "undress" uniform were just going in to dinner, when a man on a "cow pony"—one of those wiry, active little steeds so much in use around the cattle-herd—came full speed into the garrison and threw himself from the saddle at Major Edwards' gate.
If I am not among the lucky ones I’m going to try and—there goes the mess call!
I was over in another section of the cantonment this morning, for a few moments between drill and mess call, and there was “Local Board No. 163” as big as life, trotting along beside a chap I knew.
At the present writing we are all waiting for the mess call.
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