Caller-up (Noun)
Meaning
The person initiating a telephone call; "there were so many callers that he finally disconnected the telephone".
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The person initiating the call, known as the caller-up, would have to redial if the connection was lost.
- In the old days, the caller-up would have to wait for someone to answer after cranking the handle to generate the phone signal.
- She was the only caller-up I was expecting, so I rushed to answer the phone as soon as it rang.
- There were so many callers that the receptionist got bogged down in answering each caller-up individually.
- Since the caller-up didn't identify themselves, the recipient of the call refused to give out any information over the phone.