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scuttlebutt

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scuttlebutt/ˈskʌtlbʌt/

▶noun N. Amer. informal rumour; gossip.

– origin C19 (denoting a water butt on the deck of a ship, providing drinking water): from scuttled butt.

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