Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

postwhistle

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: post-whis-tle
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

After the whistle is blown in a sports match.

Example Sentences

"While the Redskins were trying to prove, at this point, that they belonged on the same field as the Bears, and while they did so with a constant sequence of postwhistle pushing and shoving matches, the Bears were quite simply blowing them off the football."

Etymology

From post- + whistle.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: post

Questions

What does postwhistle mean?: After the whistle is blown in a sports match.
Where does postwhistle come from?: From post- + whistle.

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