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What does scuttlebutt mean?

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Noun
  1. (informal, uncountable) Gossip, rumour, idle chatter.
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I hear scuttlebutt that you got an eyes-only message from High Command over the hyperwave.
Walk more, eat less and include dairy products to help burn fat is the scuttlebutt of late.
The scuttlebutt is that the aide will step aside in 2010 to make way for an election bid by Mr Biden's son, currently serving in Iraq.
Every now and again one or another of them, choked with the dust, went to get a draft of lukewarm water from the scuttlebutt.
Asked to rubbish this scurrilous piece of scuttlebutt BT has sheepishly acknowledged that it is true.
The scuttlebutt I hear is that Enron was long to the same extent that other energy suppliers and wholesale traders were long.

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