call up phrasal verb ( see also ↑ call )
1 . especially American English informal to telephone someone
call somebody ↔ up
He called me up to tell me about it.
I’m going to call up and cancel my subscription.
2 . call something ↔ up if you call up information on a computer, you make the computer show it to you:
I called up their website, but it didn’t have the information I was looking for.
3 . call somebody ↔ up British English to officially order someone to join the army, navy, or air force SYN draft American English :
I was called up three months after war broke out.
4 . call somebody ↔ up to choose someone for a national sports team ⇨ call-up :
Hurst was called up for the game against Mexico.
5 . call something ↔ up to produce something or make it appear:
She can call up the spirits of the dead.