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postwhistle

postwhistle adjective: after the whistle is blown in a sports match.

Adjective

postwhistle (not comparable)

  1. After the whistle is blown in a sports match.
    • While the Redskins were trying to prove, at this point, that they belonged on the same field as the Bears, and while they did so with a constant sequence of postwhistle pushing and shoving matches, the Bears were quite simply blowing them off the football.1988 November 18, Ted Cox, “The Sports Section”, in Chicago Reader

Origin of postwhistle

From post- + whistle.

Questions about postwhistle

What does postwhistle mean?
Postwhistle means after the whistle is blown in a sports match.
What part of speech is postwhistle?
Postwhistle is an adjective.

Words near postwhistle in the dictionary

  1. postwar
  2. postward
  3. postweaning
  4. postwelding
  5. postwelfare
  6. postwhistle
  7. postwhore
  8. postwhores
  9. Postwick
  10. Postwick with Witton
  11. postwise

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