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gossip mill en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A rumor mill.
    • The gossip-mill spread other whispers as well. Macdonald was said to employonly handsome equerries. He was rumouredto have engaged in homosexual activities when an officer in South Africa; he even had an affair with a Boer prisoner. 2014, Robert Aldrich, Cultural Encounters and Homoeroticism in Sri Lanka:
    • But the breakup and awkward love rectangle were a recurring topic in Google's gossip mill, adding even more tension. 2022, Mark Bergen, Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination, Penguin, →ISBN:

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