drunk dial

American  

[druhngk-dahy-uhl, -dahyl] / ˈdrʌŋkˈdaɪ əl, -ˈdaɪl /

Or drunk-dial

verb (used with or without object)

1. to phone (someone) while intoxicated.

   How can you avoid drunk dialing?

   Have you ever drunk-dialed an ex-girlfriend?

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noun

1. a phone call made by someone who is intoxicated.

Other Word Forms

• drunk dialer noun

Etymology

Origin of drunk dial

First recorded in 1995–2000

Example Sentences

For Karen O and Danger Mouse, it was a drunk dial in 2008.

From New York Times

Out of 486 undergraduates, 79% said they had either placed or received a drunk dial.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Besides expressing positive and negative feelings, one type of drunk dial was quite prevalent in our data—the flippant expression of love,” the authors wrote in another version of the study.

From The Wall Street Journal

Unlike the drunk dial, you can delete some of these missteps.

From Seattle Times