wigwag
Example Sentences
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Lex not only brought us together but sent us down different paths than we’d been on before he gave us the wigwag.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 25, 2016
A labor spokesman said in effect that Wilson was a liar, no such offer had been made "by personal conversation, mail, telephone, telegram, wigwag or smoke signal."
From Time Magazine Archive
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From here, he can wigwag through the skylight into the kitchen when he is ready for lunch.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Through distributors which the committee branded dummies, it gets its news by wigwag or telephone from the tracks, flashes it by Western Union teletype throughout the country.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It is more convenient for windy weather, because the flags are shorter and smaller than the flags of the three-motion wigwag.
From Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)