English Explanatory Dictionary

slide whistle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A wind instrument consisting of a fipple like a recorder's and a tube with a piston in it, the pitch being varied with a slide, commonly used as a sound effect to accompany pratfalls in slapstick.

Word forms

slide whistle slide whistles

Synonyms

jazz flute piston flute swanee whistle
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