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1. a. : a small station at which trains stop only on signal : flag stop. b. : a small community. 2. : a brief personal appearance especially by a political candidate usually on the rear platform of a train during the course of a tour. whistle-stop. 2 of 2. verb. whistle-stopped; whistle-stopping; whistle-stops. intransitive verb.
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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. Truman may have come through here in the '40s during one of his whistle-stop campaigns.
Feb 17, 2024 · FILE - President Harry S. Truman steps out onto the rear platform of his special train to greet a crowd that gathered when his whistle-stop tour paused briefly in Crestline, Ohio, June 4, 1948. Truman, at center, in front of microphone, predicted that Democratic candidate Frank J. Lausche, extreme left, would be elected governor of Ohio.
verb (used without object) , whis·tle-stopped, whis·tle-stop·ping. 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.
5 days ago · US. noun. 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. verb intransitive Word forms: ˈwhistle-ˌstopped or ˈwhistle-ˌstopping. 3.
May 10, 2024 · Definitions of whistle stop. noun. a small railway station between the principal stations or a station where the train stops only on a signal. synonyms: flag stop, way station. see more. Cite this entry. Style: MLA. "Whistle stop." Vocabulary.com Dictionary, Vocabulary.com, https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/whistle stop. Accessed 10 May. 2024.
