fogbank n a large mass of fog on the sea (as seen from a distance) Usage(s) What that creates is a rolling white landscape so evanescent it might as well be a fogbank. It's as if the person is standing at the edge of a fogbank, knowing that in time it will engulf him and there is no chance of outrunning it. On the title song, It's Your Call, McEntire's voice comes rolling in, a fogbank of joylessness.