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Partick Thistle is London Cockney rhyming slang for a whistle.
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.
Put up a black is British slang for to make a mistake.
Hock up a furball is American slang for to vomit
Whistle bait is slang for an attractive girl or woman.
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.
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.
A naval superstition is that whistling will cause wind to increase.
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.
Cheer up; chin up.
Whistle (shortened from whistle and flute) is London Cockney rhyming slang for suit.
Hustle your bustle is British slang for hurry up.
Suit. He bought himself a new whistle for the wedding.
Get a hustle on is British slang for to hurry up, to make haste.
Personalized technique of blowing a locomotive whistle, applicable only in the days before the whistles became standardized
Noun. A person who 'winds-up' regularly.
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.
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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.
imp. & p. p.
of Whistle
v. t.
To form, utter, or modulate by whistling; as, to whistle a tune or an air.
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. 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).
v. i.
To sound shrill, or like a pipe; to make a sharp, shrill sound; as, a bullet whistles through the air.
v. t.
To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
n.
Same as Whittle shawl, below.
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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.
a.
Fig.: Resembling a thistle or thistles; sharp; pricking.
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.
adv.
Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up your weapons.
adv.
In a whist manner; silently.
a.
Inclining up; tending or going up; upward; as, an up look; an up grade; the up train.
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.
Arranged; plotted; -- in a bad sense; as, a put-up job.
v. t.
To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.
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