call outta one's name
English
Verb
call outta one's name
- Alternative form of call out of one's name
- 2012, Seymour Tally Davis, The McKnight I Knew, page 30:
- Because of this, there would always be problems with someone's parents for “Calling dem outta dey name!”
- 2012, H. Samy Alim, Geneva Smitherman, Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.
- It was not a way of calling a Black person outta they name but used simply as a way of referring to a person who was racially Black.
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