calling card

noun

1

: visiting card

2

: a sign or evidence that someone or something is or has been present

broadly : an identifying mark

3

: a card displaying a number that can be used to charge telephone calls to a single account regardless of where the calls are placed

Examples of calling card in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

On the field, Lindsey Heaps’ calling card is her ability to seemingly be multiple places at once. —Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2026

There may not be one elite calling card, but there are very few empty snaps on his tape. —Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026

Wow This verdant window box gets its calling card from the spectrum of green on these lovely leaves—from pale white to chartreuse to forest greens. —Steve Bender, Southern Living, 17 Apr. 2026

That sequence — shot during the first week of production — became the film’s calling card, used to sell Beast internationally over the next 12 months. —Sean Sennett, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1808, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for calling card

• bodyguard
• boulevard
• disregard
• asgard
• backyard
• barnyard
• blackguard
• bombard
• brickyard
• canard
• churchyard
• coastguard