mess call
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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When mess call blows, we stroll into the mess hall, sit down and eat like pigs.
From Time Magazine Archive
See that all men are washed before mess call and that they are shaved before drill call.
From Time Magazine Archive
Finally the order came, "on deck all the starboard watch"; followed by the boatswain's mess call for the watch on deck.
From A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" by Doubleday, Russell
When mess call sounded, Jack and Ted, relieved from duty, went below to get some "chow" and snatch an hour or two of rest.
From The Brighton Boys with the Submarine Fleet by Driscoll, James R. [pseud.]
It was mess call, but neither candidate knew it.
From Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
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