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
Swiftly, indeed, was this done, for at 6.30 the tap of the drum sounded mess call for breakfast.
From Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)
The mess call had just sounded and I was gettin' in line when the Loot yanks me out to tote his bag off to some lodgin's he'd been assigned five or six blocks away.
From Torchy and Vee by Ford, Sewell
"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)
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