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The answer WHISTLE has 62 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of whistle in various dictionaries:
noun - the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture
noun - the act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or blowing a whistle
noun - a small wind instrument that produces a whistling sound by blowing into it
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Possible Jeopardy Clues |
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In a song from Snow White, it's what you do while you work |
Asked "What makes a woman unforgettable?" Lauren Bacall said, "She had to know how to" do this |
As Lauren Bacall advised, you just put your lips together & blow |
"To Have and Have Not":"You know how to ____, don't you, Steve?" |
The instrument heard here is the penny type of this |
To wheeple is to do this feebly or ineffectually, perhaps trying to imitate Snow White "while you work" |
Natives on Gomera in the Canaries talk by using these warbling sounds, so wet yours before chatting |
Doing this with 2 fingers in your mouth is an old-fashioned but effective way to hail a taxi |
Whistle description |
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A whistle is an instrument which produces sound from a stream of gas, most commonly air. It may be mouth-operated, or powered by air pressure, steam, or other means. Whistles vary in size from a small slide whistle or nose flute type to a large multi-piped church organ. * Whistles have been around since early humans first carved out a gourd or branch and found they could make sound with it. In prehistoric Egypt, small shells were used as whistles. Many present day wind instruments are inheritors of these early whistles. With the rise of more mechanical power, other forms of whistles have been developed. * One characteristic of a whistle is that it creates a pure, or nearly pure, tone. The conversion of flow energy to sound comes from an interaction between a solid material and a fluid stream. The forces in some whistles are sufficient to set the solid material in motion. Classic examples are Aeolian tones that result in galloping power lines, or the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (the so-called "Ga |