call an audible

== English == === Pronunciation === === Verb === call an audible (third-person singular simple present calls an audible, present participle calling an audible, simple past and past participle called an audible) (American football) To change the play at the line of scrimmage by yelling out a new one. (US, idiomatic) To change plans at the last minute in response to new information. 2004, Richard L. Armitage, Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations for 2005: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, Part 5: Iraq Reconstruction Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 10: We found this insurgency much more virile than we expected, so we called an audible. 2008, Doug Fields & Duffy Robbins, Speaking to Teenagers: How to Think About, Create, and Deliver Effective Messages, Zondervan/Youth Specialties, page 28: Based on that decoding process, we may need to call an audible and either fine-tune or change channels in an attempt to help teenagers decode our messages more accurately.