safety call

Meaning

Noun

• A prescheduled phone call to another person who knows where one is and who one was going out with. A missed check-in (or using a pre-arranged code phrase for danger) signals one's contact person to call for help.
• A type of called shot where a shooting player does not have to continue their turn after pocketing one or more of their balls.

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