Definition of hoax call in English:

hoax call

noun

单词	hoax call
释义	Definition of hoax call in English: hoax call noun A telephone call made to trick or deceive someone for humorous or malicious purposes. anybody who makes a hoax call to the emergency services is potentially risking lives Example sentencesExamples A £1,000 bounty has been put on the head of anyone who makes a hoax call during the firefighters' dispute. The spokesman said the number of hoax calls had fallen dramatically. He received a call over the car radio instructing him to go to "a hoax call" near the border. Whenever the emergency services can identify repeated hoax calls from a phone, companies suspend the service to the bill payer. Crews providing emergency cover for the district received 15 hoax calls by midnight. The problem was worst in Scotland, where there were nearly 300 hoax calls in the first ten hours of the stoppage. This area in particular was experiencing a large number of hoax calls this year. Hoax calls hinder response times to real emergencies. The defendant had a long history of making hoax calls. Firefighters have blasted 'mindless idiots' who sent them out on two hoax calls last night.
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