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▸ noun: An act of whistling.
▸ noun: A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling.
▸ noun: Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling.
▸ noun: (Cockney rhyming slang) A suit (from whistle and flute).
▸ noun: (colloquial) The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive) 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.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive) To make a similar sound by forcing air through a musical instrument or a pipe etc.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To move in such a way as to create a whistling sound.
▸ verb: (transitive) To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
▸ verb: (intransitive, Opus Dei, slang) To request admission to Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic organization.
Similar:
tin whistle,
pennywhistle,
sing,
Bird Whistle,
whistling buoy,
whirrer,
whistling arrow,
whisk,
coil whine,
wind instrument,
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