gossip mill

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gossip mill (plural gossip mills)

  1. Rumor mill.
    • 2014, Robert Aldrich, Cultural Encounters and Homoeroticism in Sri Lanka:
      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.
    • 2022, Mark Bergen, Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination[1], Penguin, →ISBN:
      But the breakup and awkward love rectangle were a recurring topic in Google's gossip mill, adding even more tension.