Definition of whistle-stop
adjective
[attributive] very fast and with only brief pauses:a whistle-stop tour of Britain
noun
North American a small unimportant town on a railway: she raised five kids in Hornepayne, a whistle stop along the CN Line north of Lake Superior a brief pause in a tour by a politician for an electioneering speech: in politics, smoky back rooms long ago gave way to the whistle-stop and the radio exhortation
