Postwhistle
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 After the whistle is blown in a sports match. not-comparable
"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."
Example
More examples"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.
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