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whistle walk

whistle walk noun: the path slaves took to deliver food from the kitchen building of a plantation to the main dining room. Stories claim that slaves were expected to whistle during this walk in order to assure their masters that they were not eating the food.

Noun

whistle walk (plural whistle walks)

  1. (US, idiomatic) The path slaves took to deliver food from the kitchen building of a plantation to the main dining room. Stories claim that slaves were expected to whistle during this walk in order to assure their masters that they were not eating the food.

Forms of whistle walk

pluralwhistle walks

Questions about whistle walk

What does whistle walk mean?
Whistle walk means the path slaves took to deliver food from the kitchen building of a plantation to the main dining room. Stories claim that slaves were expected to whistle during this walk in order to assure their masters that they were not eating the food.
What part of speech is whistle walk?
Whistle walk is a noun.
What is the plural of whistle walk?
The plural of whistle walk is whistle walks.

Words near whistle walk in the dictionary

  1. whistle posts
  2. whistle register
  3. whistle registers
  4. whistle stop
  5. whistle up
  6. whistle walk
  7. whistle walks
  8. whistle-belly vengeance
  9. whistle-blew
  10. whistle-blow
  11. whistle-blower

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