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Definition of call people up to the majors

call up to the majors

verb - transitive

  • to offer a promotion in a job or position in life.
                                                                                               

    Citation from "Open up Your Yenta Mouth and Say Ah", Royal Pains (TV, 2010), Season 2 Episode 12 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

    Last edited on May 04 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 17 2010.

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Other terms relating to 'business (related to)':

Definitions include: of a product, as-is rather than custom-built.
Definitions include: a person's primary skill.
Definitions include: of an entire task, the easy portions.
Definitions include: "I see".
Definitions include: a "traditional" business with a physical presence.
Definitions include: to share business details.
Definitions include: more than ramen profitable.
Definitions include: to play with a Hacky Sack (footbag.)
Definitions include: an unenthusiastic worker, especially in an office setting.
Definitions include: a person who provides illegal drugs.
Definitions include: conventionally.
Definitions include: "executive."
Definitions include: to hire a new employee or bring someone onto a team.
Definitions include: an organization.
Definitions include: a small, often decrepit business.

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Other terms relating to 'call':

Definitions include: a situation in which any outcome is equally likely.
Definitions include: acronym for "booty call"; hookup.
Definitions include: a last-minute or previously unplanned request to meet up with someone with the intention of having sex (i.e. getting booty.)
Definitions include: to claim ownership, at least temporarily.
Definitions include: to recognize something for what it is.
Definitions include: to vomit.
Definitions include: to vomit.
Definitions include: to reserve something for the next five minutes, while one is absent.
Definitions include: to vomit.
Definitions include: to vomit (noisily).
Definitions include: a prostitute.
Definitions include: to vomit.
Definitions include: to stop performing a task.
Definitions include: to go home and/or go to bed.
Definitions include: a good solution to a problem

Other terms relating to 'major':

Definitions include: Lots of something.
Definitions include: total, complete.
Definitions include: a great amount of swag.
Definitions include: a big party

Other terms relating to 'the':

Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
Definitions include: interrogation.
Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: information.
Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: inclusive.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them
Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.

Other terms relating to 'to':

Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: See nine to five.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: a declaration of victory or superiority.
Definitions include: sex in which anal sex is immediately followed by fellatio.
Definitions include: to revisit one's past.
Definitions include: to go back to the beginning.
Definitions include: extreme; "all out".
Definitions include: to be vastly superior.
Definitions include: to perform an activity before someone else.
Definitions include: to be unintelligible.
Definitions include: to do.
Definitions include: more important things to deal with.
Definitions include: to kill or destroy.

Other terms relating to 'up':

Definitions include: a warning that one or more law enforcement officers are near.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: to misbehave.
Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up."
Definitions include: well dressed, wearing makeup, etc.
Definitions include: doing something emphatically.
Definitions include: energetic due to consumption of a stimulant.
Definitions include: to increase.
Definitions include: to contribute one's share.
Definitions include: to mess up.
Definitions include: 1. To be highly intoxicated on drugs and/or alcohol
Definitions include: to make something like ass.
Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird".
Definitions include: stupid.
Definitions include: strange / stupid.

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