Usually means: Instrument producing sound by blowing.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word whistle:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. whistle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. whistle: Merriam-Webster
  3. whistle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. whistle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. whistle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. whistle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Whistle, whistle: Wordnik
  8. whistle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. whistle: Wiktionary
  10. whistle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. whistle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. whistle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. whistle: Dictionary.com
  14. whistle (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. whistle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Whistle (film), Whistle (Black Pink song), Whistle (Blackpink song), Whistle (Flo Rida song), Whistle (Kannada film), Whistle (While You Work It), Whistle (band), Whistle (company), Whistle (disambiguation), Whistle (novel), Whistle (organisation), Whistle (soda), Whistle, Whistle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Whistle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. whistle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. whistle: Rhymezone
  20. whistle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. whistle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. WHISTLE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. Whistle: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  24. Whistle, Whistle: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. whistle: FreeDictionary.org
  26. whistle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. whistle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  28. whistle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Whistle: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whistle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Whistle: MedFriendly Glossary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. whistle: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. whistle: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. whistle, whistle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. whistle (and flute): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. whistle: The Folk File
  4. Whistle: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Whistle: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See whistleable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A device designed to be placed in the mouth and blown, or driven by steam or some other mechanism, to make a whistling sound.
noun:  An act of whistling.
noun:  A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling.
noun:  Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling.
noun:  (Cockney rhyming slang) A suit (from whistle and flute).
noun:  (colloquial) The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To make a shrill, high-pitched sound by forcing air through the mouth. To produce a whistling sound, restrictions to the flow of air are created using the teeth, tongue and lips.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To make a similar sound by forcing air through a musical instrument or a pipe etc.
verb:  (intransitive) To move in such a way as to create a whistling sound.
verb:  (transitive) To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
verb:  (intransitive, Opus Dei, slang) To request admission to Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic organization.

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