house call
noun
: a visit (as by a doctor or a repair person) to a home to provide a requested service
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Does your doctor make house calls?
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Then the barbers also make house calls for a few players.
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Tim Graham, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
The house calls sometimes require her to get creative.
—Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2024
On the Eagles’ first play from scrimmage following a Rams punt, Saquon Barkley made another house call, this one from 78 yards out.
—Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 20 Jan. 2025
Momentum-seizing house calls of 70 and 72 yards deflated the Rams and cemented Philly as a team to fear.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
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Tim Graham, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
The house calls sometimes require her to get creative.
—Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2024
On the Eagles’ first play from scrimmage following a Rams punt, Saquon Barkley made another house call, this one from 78 yards out.
—Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 20 Jan. 2025
Momentum-seizing house calls of 70 and 72 yards deflated the Rams and cemented Philly as a team to fear.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
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house call
noun
: a visit (as by a doctor) to a home to provide medical care
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