Idioms

pocket dial

pocket dial

1. verb To inadvertently make a phone call by accidentally sitting or otherwise pressing on one's phone (typically when it is in one's pocket). A: "Do you know why Grandma called me last night?" B: "Oh, I think she just pocket dialed you."
2. noun The act of making such a phone call. I was excited when Jill called me for the first time in months, but she didn't actually want to talk to me—it was just a pocket dial.
See also: dial, pocket
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References in periodicals archive
Another call from aKirkbypayphone also features children's voices in the distance, while the third sounds like a pocket dial.
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Winkler: I prefer the term pocket dial. Not that I am aware of.
The foul-mouthed tirade was recorded by the customer after the Domino's driver rang her back in what is believed to have been an accidental pocket dial.
The second feature addresses "pocket dial," a common culprit of abandoned calls accidentally made without the user knowing it.
6th Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that you have no right to privacy if you pocket dial someone and they listen in or record the call.
The functions of the app include sending the person doing the tracking updates on their partner's location and forwarding duplicates of text message traffic from the targeted phone, even a command that allows a user to force the target phone to silently call their own, like a pocket dial, so they can listen in on what the person is saying.
John Queally's charge, a winning pointer, won her bumper at Ballinrobe in August beating Motown Girl and Pocket Dial in what looked an ordinary affair.
"Our call handlers have to investigate every call - and that includes 'pocket dials' and people calling in for a lift home - yes, we really had calls to taxi people home.
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