whistle walk

English

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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.

References

• You All Spoken Here, by Roy Wilder, University of Georgia Press, 1998, Page 31