"slide whistle" meaning in All languages combined

See slide whistle on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: slide whistles [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} slide whistle (plural slide whistles)
  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. Wikipedia link: slide whistle Synonyms: jazz flute, piston flute, swanee whistle

Inflected forms

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