Definition of "bugle call" [bugle call]

• A signal broadcast by the sound of a bugle (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The remaining mechanics on both sides began activating their destructive artifacts, and the thrumming of their engines was a bugle call to both sides."
• "The rooster’s fabled cock-a-doodle-do is not the quaint bugle call to, daily, wake the countryside, but rather what evolutionary biologists call a mate investment."