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mukluk telegraph en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, informal, uncountable) The spread of information and gossip by word of mouth in rural Alaska.
    • Somehow, over the mukluk telegraph, I got the message and came into town and got him. 2003, Jeff Davis, Fifty-Five Years in the Alaskan Bush: The John Swiss Story, →ISBN, page 92:
    • That along with the friends that I was talking to formed quite a mukluk telegraph for keeping track of the competition. 2015, Burt Bomhoff, Iditarod Alaska: Life of a Long Distance Sled Dog Musher, →ISBN:
    • He lived here, and although something told her he wasn't a member in good standing of the congregation of the Chistona Little Chapel, maybe he'd heard something over the mukluk telegraph. 1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 104:

Synonyms

mukluk wireless