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单词 hoax call
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Definition of hoax call in English:

hoax call

noun
  • A telephone call made to trick or deceive someone for humorous or malicious purposes.

    anybody who makes a hoax call to the emergency services is potentially risking lives
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A £1,000 bounty has been put on the head of anyone who makes a hoax call during the firefighters' dispute.
    • The spokesman said the number of hoax calls had fallen dramatically.
    • He received a call over the car radio instructing him to go to "a hoax call" near the border.
    • Whenever the emergency services can identify repeated hoax calls from a phone, companies suspend the service to the bill payer.
    • Crews providing emergency cover for the district received 15 hoax calls by midnight.
    • The problem was worst in Scotland, where there were nearly 300 hoax calls in the first ten hours of the stoppage.
    • This area in particular was experiencing a large number of hoax calls this year.
    • Hoax calls hinder response times to real emergencies.
    • The defendant had a long history of making hoax calls.
    • Firefighters have blasted 'mindless idiots' who sent them out on two hoax calls last night.
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