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    [Verb]  | "whistle-stop" 


    1: to make a tour especially in a political campaign with many brief personal appearances in small communities


    Origin: 1952 ;

    [Noun]  | "whis*tle-stop" | \ ˈ(h)wi-səl-ˌstäp \


    1: a small station at which trains stop only on signal : flag stop

    2: a small community

    3: a brief personal appearance especially by a political candidate usually on the rear platform of a train during the course of a tour


    Origin: circa 1925 ;

    [Noun]  | "whistle-stops" 


    1: a small residential settlement;


      * e.g., " ... for that all-important primary election, candidates are willing to go to every whistle-stop in the state "



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    [Noun]  | "whistle-stop" 


    1: a small residential settlement;


      * e.g., " ... for that all-important primary election, candidates are willing to go to every whistle-stop in the state "



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     [ "Whistle-stop" ]

    1: A small useless town you'll find on the railroad. They'll likely consist of at least one gas station, a postal office, and maybe a department store or school if you're lucky.

      * e.g.,  ... "Yeah, make sure not to stop at the whistle-stop ahead, those places are always full of pastures and hookers both somehow" 

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