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wake-up call

  1. a telephone call made by a wake-up service
  2. anything that serves to arouse someone from apathy or inactivity

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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