0 a card that allows the user to make calls from anywhere and charge it to his or her home phone account
1 (in the past) a card with their name on it that a person left after they had made a formal visit to someone else's house, etc.
2 something that describes or shows a person's typical qualities:
3 a card that you can buy or use like a credit card to pay for phone calls, so you do not have to pay with cash:
Tucker would make it appear that he was as flexible as a snake, and eventually the dance became his calling card.
Powell had not expected to win, but said he had left his calling card, i.e. publicly demonstrated himself to be a potential future leader.
Rollison's calling card includes a caricature of a "toff" -- a line drawing with a top hat, monocle, bow-tie and cigarette with a holder.
Hughes subsequently penned a story, inspired by his family trips as a child, that was to become his calling card and entry onto the staff of the magazine.
Designs of this sort for emblems and coats of arms also served as a kind of calling card for the artist himself.
Vigilance in protecting it is no longer a communal calling card.
That is because creators and artists act as our antennae for the future, as our critical conscience and as our calling card.
They are, in a manner of speaking, the calling card that we present to the world outside.