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- n. A high-pitched whistle, inaudible to humans, used to train dogs.
- n. That which is understood only by a narrow demographic.
- n. politics Especially, an allusion or comment made by a politician with the intent that only a certain demographic note it and recognize its significance.
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Bells and Whistles
Liberty Bell, Belle and Sebastian, Whistler's Mother, whistle stop, pennywhistle, whistle pig, wolf whistle, wet your whistle, barbell, bell jar, Bell's palsy, bell pepper and 138 more...
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dog phrases/words
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Words of the Times
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testilying, ghost talk, apneist, solastalgia, izakaya, hooker, telectroscope, airflyte, phomance, bromhidrosis, stinky feet, cupping and 482 more...
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kewpid see dog-whistle. Nov 3, 2008
john “The potential double meaning rekindled speculation among Mr. Bush's critics that he communicates with his conservative Christian base with a dog-whistle of code words and symbols, deliberately incomprehensible to secular liberals.�?
The New York Times, Speaking in the Tongue of Evangelicals, by David D. Kirkpatrick, October 17, 2004
Nov 3, 2008