telephone tag
nounDefinitions
A situation in which a person unsuccessfully attempts to contact another person by…
A situation in which a person unsuccessfully attempts to contact another person by telephone and leaves a message instead, and in which the second person then unsuccessfully attempts to return the initial call and leaves a message for the first person, and so on as if the two are playing a game of tag in which the most recent person to have been left with a message is now designated as "it" (i.e. as the player now obliged to chase the other and to attempt anew to make contact).
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for telephone tag. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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