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The meaning of WHISTLE-STOP is a small station at which trains stop only on signal : flag stop.
to campaign for political office by traveling around the country, originally by train, stopping at small communities to address voters. to take a trip consisting of several brief, usually overnight, stops. adjective. occurring at a whistle stop; consisting of whistle stops:
used to describe a series of short visits to a number of different places in a short space of time: The candidate's whistle-stop tour chugged through Missouri, Kansas and Colorado before winding down in Arizona.
1. a small town, orig. one at which a train stopped only upon signal. 2. a brief stop in a small town as part of a tour, esp. in a political campaign; orig., such a stop in which the candidate spoke from the rear platform of a train.
The term “whistle-stop” originated from the sound made by steam locomotives when they stopped at small stations along their route. These stops were often brief and uneventful, with passengers getting on or off quickly before the train continued on its journey.
Definition of whistle-stop adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A whistle stop or whistle-stop tour is a style of political campaigning where the politician makes a series of brief appearances or speeches at a number of small towns over a short period of time. Originally, whistle-stop appearances were made from the open platform of an observation car or a private railroad car .
