Usually means: Narrow escape from serious danger.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. close call: Merriam-Webster
  2. close call: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. close call: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. close call: Collins English Dictionary
  5. close call: Vocabulary.com
  6. close-call: Wordnik
  7. close call: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. close call: Wiktionary
  9. close call: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. close call: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. close call: Dictionary.com
  12. Close Call: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. close call: Rhymezone
  14. close call: FreeDictionary.org
  15. close call: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. close call: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. close call: Legal dictionary
  2. close call: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. close call: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. close call: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. close call: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. close call: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (close call)

noun:  A situation in which an injury or other undesirable outcome is narrowly avoided.

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