"whistle walk" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-whistle walk.ogg [Australia] Forms: whistle walks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} whistle walk (plural whistle walks)
  1. (US, idiomatic) The path slaves took to deliver food from the kitchen building of a plantation to the main dining room. Stories claim that slaves were expected to whistle during this walk in order to assure their masters that they were not eating the food. Tags: US, idiomatic
    Sense id: en-whistle_walk-en-noun-yy0tAQA2 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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