It is sometimes used to call for help, as well.

That's what they used to call him in the old days.

I used to call her that in the old days.

My father used to call me that, when I was little.

It was really more like what they used to call a rest home.

I believe all my men used to call me that in the better times.

There is what used to be called the social question.

He no longer had 200 friends in what used to be called the peace movement.

He would think about what his mother always used to call 'nice things'.

He was what they used to call a bad influence in the school.