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

From here, he can wigwag through the skylight into the kitchen when he is ready for lunch.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Instruction in army signalling by wigwag and semaphore was started whenever a squad or two could be spared from the routine of detail.

From The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces by Bachman, William Elmer