0 used to describe a series of short visits to a number of different places in a short space of time:
The candidate's whistle-stop tour chugged through Missouri, Kansas and Colorado before winding down in Arizona.
Truman may have come through here in the '40s during one of his whistle-stop campaigns.
We finally made it north of the border for a delightful whistle-stop tour around Burns country.
Below we offer a whistle-stop guide to Eastern and Northern Europe's city break destinations.
The first half of the degree course is a whistle-stop tour of multimedia design.
Tonight's show provides a whistlestop tour of comedy from the 1940s to the present day.
1 a small town or community on a railway line, or a station in or near a small town where trains only stop if they are given a signal to do so:
During the 1964 election, she bravely embarked on a whistle-stop tour of eight Southern states to promote the Civil Rights Act.
The most popular trips tend to be whistle-stop coach tours of the country's highlights.
Our schedule this week is beginning to read like one of those "If it's Tuesday, it must be Paris" whistle-stop American tours of the world that Europeans like to mock so much.
Lincoln was warned about an assassination attempt on a whistle-stop journey from Springfield, Ill., to take office in Washington.
First on stage was Brozman himself, preparing to lead a whistle-stop tour of his greatest hits.
The locomotive was gaining speed swiftly, its one hundred and five tons departing another whistle-stop in another anonymous town.
With a population fluctuating between eight and 12, William Creek in South Australia is merely a whistle-stop.
