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Whistle Stop

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Noun

1. flag stop, way station, whistle stop

a small railway station between the principal stations or a station where the train stops only on a signal

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Whistle Stop

see synonyms of whistle stop
noun
1. US and Canadian
a. 
a minor railway station where trains stop only on signal
b. 
a small town having such a station
2. 
a. 
a brief appearance in a town, esp by a political candidate to make a speech, shake hands, etc
b. 
(as modifier)
a whistle-stop tour
verb whistle-stop -stops, -stopping or -stopped
3. (intransitive)
to campaign for office by visiting many small towns to give short speeches
verbWord forms: whistle-stops, whistle-stopping or whistle-stopped (intransitive)
1. 
to campaign for office by visiting many small towns to give short speeches
adjective
2. 
involving brief appearances in a succession of places, esp by a political candidate to make a speech, shake hands, etc
Bertie Ahern will host a working dinner for Tony Blair tonight as he jets into Dublin on a whistle-stop tour of E.U. capitals.
He had made the whistle-stop visit on his way home from the World Economic Forum.

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Whistle Stop

see synonyms of whistle stop
noun
1. 
a small town, orig. one at which a train stopped only upon signal
2. 
a brief stop in a small town as part of a tour, esp. in a political campaign; orig., such a stop in which the candidate spoke from the rear platform of a train
verb intransitiveWord forms: ˈwhistle-ˌstopped or ˈwhistle-ˌstopping
3. 
to make a series of whistle-stops

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Whistle Stop

see synonyms of whistle stop
n.
1. A town or station at which a train stops only if signaled.
2. A brief appearance of a political candidate in a small town, traditionally on the observation platform of a train.
intr.v. whis·tle-stopped, whis·tle-stop·ping, whis·tle-stops
To conduct a political campaign by making brief appearances or speeches in a series of small towns.

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