last call

[last kawl]

noun

1. an announcement made in a bar shortly before service of alcoholic beverages ends (sometimes used attributively): I’m getting too old for last call hookups.

   We do last call 30 minutes before we close the doors, and we stop serving drinks 10 minutes after last call.

   I’m getting too old for last call hookups.

Word History and Origins

Origin of last call¹

An Americanism dating back to 1935–40

Example Sentences

But in December 2020, he remembers what would be his last call from her while she was in hospital.

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Then he shouted, “Last call for Pirates on Holiday. The show is about to begin. All ticket holders into the theater!”

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“All ticket holders into the theater! Last call!”

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“We played the jukebox while democracy fell,” Price sings, while the bartender yells that it’s last call and you’re still crying in your beer.

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Last Call Theatre, a local interactive-focused performance group, has found a way to give us a taste of buccaneering — without the pesky consequences of being captured by the Royal Navy or succumbing to a rum-induced liver disease.

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