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whistle-stops

whistle-stops is the plural of whistle-stop.

Meaning of whistle-stop

Noun

whistle-stop (plural whistle-stops)

  1. (idiomatic) A small train station.
  2. A brief stop on a campaign tour to make a speech or perform some other type of public electioneering.

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Questions about whistle-stops

What is whistle-stops the plural of?
Whistle-stops is the plural of whistle-stop.

Words near whistle-stops in the dictionary

  1. whistle-pig
  2. whistle-pigs
  3. whistle-stop
  4. whistle-stopped
  5. whistle-stopping
  6. whistle-stops
  7. whistle-to-whistle
  8. whistleable
  9. whistleberries
  10. whistleblew
  11. whistleblow

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whistle-stops (page history and authors); whistle-stop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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