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  • noun Plural form of whistle-stop.

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Examples

  • There were audiences with local politicians in St. Louis and Kansas City, and crowds to be acknowledged from the back platform at innumerable whistle-stops across the Midwest.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • There were audiences with local politicians in St. Louis and Kansas City, and crowds to be acknowledged from the back platform at innumerable whistle-stops across the Midwest.

    Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

  • Half a mile of track spread out on multiple levels, through a string of tiny burgs — whistle-stops, Don B. calls them — and a small-but-swinging skiing community at the top of a snow-capped mountain.

    The Wrong Barthelme 2009

  • May 16 brings potentially hazardous primary election whistle-stops in Kentucky, Oregon and, the grand central station that is Pennsylvania.

    E-VOTE TRAIN WRECK 2006: Another Week, Another Wild �� and Unfortunate �� Ride�� 2006

  • Clinton arrived in South Africa after earlier whistle-stops in

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • Sam hurried back to Cleveland to commence another string of eastward whistle-stops.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Sam hurried back to Cleveland to commence another string of eastward whistle-stops.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • I think candidate Dewey joked at Truman for making campaign stops at whistle-stops at unimportant places.

    America In So Many Words 1998

  • "Blackguarding" Congress at whi -- whistle-stops all across the country.

    America In So Many Words 1998

  • Crowds gathered at whistle-stops to cheer the celebrated warrior.

    Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

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