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