单词 | police whistle |
释义 | > as lemmaspolice whistle police whistle n. a type of loud whistle used by the police. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > signalling with other sounding instruments > [noun] > sounding of whistle > types of whistle used as signal steam-whistle1840 air whistle1853 police whistle1872 bull1884 1872 Condition of Affairs Late Insurrectionary States: Georgia (U.S. Congr.) II. 744 I heard several whistles blow, like police whistles. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 155 Police whistle in my ears still. 2003 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 11 Dec. 5 Officer O'Rourke found him in the pitch black..by blowing his police whistle. < as lemmas |
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