0 the end of a football game, when the referee blows a whistle to end the game: --
1 the end of a game of football, rugby, etc., when the referee blows the whistle to signal that the game is finished: --
Tours shall not arrive at the match more than one hour before kick-off and shall not leave later than one hour after the final whistle.
I am sorry to part company with him at, as it were, the final whistle.
When the umpire blows his final whistle when the score is 50 - 50, he leaves the pitch with his head held high.
We are blowing the final whistle when the score is 90 - 10.
I am grateful to get in just before the final whistle.
That includes a period of two hours before the start of the match and one hour after the final whistle.
I must admit that, as you can see, this vote is not the final whistle marking the end of an impeccably played political game.
Maryland fans stormed the field in celebration after the final whistle.
