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n. (context idiomatic performing arts English) An audition which is open to the public and thus draws a large number of applicants, many of whom are inexperienced.
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National Lampoon Presents Cattle Call is a 2006 National Lampoon comedy film written and directed by Martin Guigui, and starring Thomas Ian Nicholas and Jenny Mollen. It was Chelsea Handler's first feature film debut, and includes cameo appearances from Paul Mazursky and Jonathan Winters. The R-rated film was released via DVD on May 13, 2008 by Lionsgate Home Entertainment.1
A cattle call is an open audition.
Cattle Call may also refer to:
- Cattle Call, a 2006 comedy film by National Lampoon
- " The Cattle Call", a song by Tex Owens
- Cattle Call/Yodel, a song by Elvis Presley
- Cattle Call (company), a video game company
Usage examples of "cattle call".
So he let fly a cattle call and stepped out in the open, waving his hat until the cowhand spotted him and waved back.
Somebody, Mita Bean, and Neva Hoydova are cooling their heels at a cattle call.
I didn't even know about the cattle call until I walked through the gate.
The ceremony's just a cattle call over in the Supreme Court, eight hundred kids all standing on the front steps.
The invitation hadn't been to automatic fortune and fame but to a total cattle call.
Humans were a randy bunch, Vergil decided as he perched on a stool and watched the cattle call.
The first had been President Engler's campaign-season 'cattle call' of Nobel Prize winners.
The theater rented by the Association of Research Mediums and Psychics Investigation Trust (known by the dubious acronym ARMPIT) for their cattle call of psychic talent was a small, intimate space located in the basement of an old building that looked to date back to the late eighteenth century.