whistle
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Is whistle a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (Cockney rhyming slang) A suit (from whistle and flute).Examples: "We soldiers changed into our No.1 dress uniforms, Sid into his best whistle and we set off for the church."Cockneycountableslanguncountable
2. (colloquial) The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling.Examples: "Let's […] drink the other cup to wet our whistles."colloquialcountableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive) To make a shrill, high-pitched sound by forcing air through the mouth. To produce a whistling sound, restrictions to the flow of air are created using the teeth, tongue and lips.Examples: "Never whistle at a funeral."; "He was whistling a happy tune."ambitransitive
2. (ambitransitive) To make a similar sound by forcing air through a musical instrument or a pipe etc.Examples: "The steam train whistled as it passed by."; "It requires quite an orchestra to get a train to start; the guard blows his horn, the stationmaster rings a large bell, and the engine whistles."ambitransitive
3. (intransitive) To move in such a way as to create a whistling sound.Examples: "A bullet whistled past."intransitive
4. (transitive) To send, signal, or call by a whistle.transitive
5. (intransitive, Opus Dei, slang) To request admission to Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic organization.intransitiveslang
Definition source: Wiktionary