Definition of "scuttlebutt" []

• Slang Gossip; rumor. (noun)
• Nautical A drinking fountain on a ship. (noun)
• Nautical A cask on a ship used to hold the day's supply of drinking water. (noun)

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• "The scuttlebutt is that the RNC might step in a help pay off those debts."
• "So the latest scuttlebutt is that Google and Dell are getting together and bashing out the first Android phone."
• "They refuse to give me firm data, but the scuttlebutt is that AT&T is doing likewise."