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whistle walks

whistle walks is the plural of whistle walk.

Meaning of whistle walk

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.

Questions about whistle walks

What is whistle walks the plural of?
Whistle walks is the plural of whistle walk.

Words near whistle walks in the dictionary

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

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