whistler
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Whistler
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —n | |
| 1. | a person or thing that whistles |
| 2. | radio an atmospheric disturbance picked up by radio receivers, characterized by a whistling sound of decreasing pitch. It is caused by the electromagnetic radiation produced by lightning |
| 3. | See also thickhead any of various birds having a whistling call, such as certain Australian flycatchers and the goldeneye |
| 4. | any of various North American marmots of the genus Marmota, esp M. caligata (hoary marmot) |
| 5. | vet science a horse affected with an abnormal respiratory noise, resembling whistling |
| 6. | informal a referee |
| Whistler (ˈwɪslə) | |
| —n | |
| James Abbott McNeill. 1834--1903, US painter and etcher, living in Europe. He is best known for his sequence of nocturnes and his portraits | |
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Example sentences
He is a guitarist, a harmonica player and a whistler.
She'd go around the party, and she was a great whistler.
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