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Partick Thistle is London Cockney rhyming slang for a whistle.
Whistle (shortened from whistle and flute) is London Cockney rhyming slang for suit.
Hustle is slang for to earn or obtain something forcefully. Hustle is slang for to work as a prostitute.Hustle is Black−American slang for to survive by any means possible. Hustle is American slang for to solicit business.
Get a hustle on is British slang for to hurry up, to make haste.
Put up a black is British slang for to make a mistake.
Suit. He bought himself a new whistle for the wedding.
A naval superstition is that whistling will cause wind to increase.
This has a couple of meanings. If something you do is a "wind up" it means you are making fun of someone. However it you are "wound up" it means you are annoyed.
Noun. A person who 'winds-up' regularly.
Personalized technique of blowing a locomotive whistle, applicable only in the days before the whistles became standardized
This has a couple of meanings. If something you do is a "wind up" it means you are making fun of someone. However it you are "wound up" it means you are annoyed.
Hustle your bustle is British slang for hurry up.
Whistle bait is slang for an attractive girl or woman.
Cheer up; chin up.
A plastic tampon inserter that’s washed up on the beach. Example: “Making a sandcastle is more fun if you decorate it with beach whistles.
Noun. A mess up, a 'cock-up'. E.g."I've made a right balls-up of my exams." Verb. To make a mess of a situation.
Hock up a furball is American slang for to vomit
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n.
Same as Whittle shawl, below.
v. i.
To sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp, shrill sound; as, a bullet whistles through the air.
prep.
From the coast towards the interior of, as a country; from the mouth towards the source of, as a stream; as, to journey up the country; to sail up the Hudson.
v. i.
A sharp, shrill, more or less musical sound, made by forcing the breath through a small orifice of the lips, or through or instrument which gives a similar sound; the sound used by a sportsman in calling his dogs; the shrill note of a bird; as, the sharp whistle of a boy, or of a boatswain's pipe; the blackbird's mellow whistle.
v. t.
To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
a.
Inclining up; tending or going up; upward; as, an up look; an up grade; the up train.
a.
Arranged; plotted; -- in a bad sense; as, a put-up job.
v. t.
To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.
a.
Overgrown with thistles; as, thistly ground.
adv.
To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, or the like; -- usually followed by to or with; as, to be up to the chin in water; to come up with one's companions; to come up with the enemy; to live up to engagements.
imp. & p. p.
of Whittle
imp. & p. p.
of Whistle
adv.
In a higher place or position, literally or figuratively; in the state of having arisen; in an upright, or nearly upright, position; standing; mounted on a horse; in a condition of elevation, prominence, advance, proficiency, excitement, insurrection, or the like; -- used with verbs of rest, situation, condition, and the like; as, to be up on a hill; the lid of the box was up; prices are up.
a.
Fig.: Resembling a thistle or thistles; sharp; pricking.
adv.
In a whist manner; silently.
v. t.
To form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or an air.
adv.
To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite; as, in the phrases to eat up; to drink up; to burn up; to sum up; etc.; to shut up the eyes or the mouth; to sew up a rent.
adv.
Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up your weapons.
v. i.
An instrument in which gas or steam forced into a cavity, or against a thin edge, produces a sound more or less like that made by one who whistles through the compressed lips; as, a child's whistle; a boatswain's whistle; a steam whistle (see Steam whistle, under Steam).
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