| 单词 | dog whistle |
| 释义 | dog whistle[ dawg-hwis-uhl, -wis-, dog- ] / ˈdɔgˌʰwɪs əl, -ˌwɪs-, ˈdɒg- / nounPolitics. a political strategy, statement, slogan, etc., that conveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by those who support the message: His criticism of welfare was a dog whistle appealing to racist voters. Origin of dog whistleFirst recorded in 1995–2000; <dog whistle a high-frequency whistle audible to dogs but not humans OTHER WORDS FROM dog whistledog-whistle, adjectivedog whistling, nounWords nearby dog whistledog violet, dog-walker, dog warden, dogwatch, dog whelk, dog whistle, dogwood, dogwood family, dogwood winter, dog work, dogy Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for dog whistleBritish Dictionary definitions for dog whistledog-whistle adjectiverelating to the targeting of potentially controversial messages to specific voters while avoiding offending those voters with whom the message will not be populardog-whistle politics verb(intr) to employ this kind of political strategy Word Origin for dog-whistleC21: from the fact that a dog whistle operates at frequencies that can be heard only by dogs Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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