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
"Corporal, when mess call sounds send a private of the guard with these men to put them in D Company's mess for their first meal."
From Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks or, Two Recruits in the United States Army by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
Of course I did not know an "assembly" from a mess call, but the others ran for the parade ground and so I followed.
From Private Peat by Peat, Harold Reginald
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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