scuttlebutt
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- n a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people
- At a rally last week, Duke lent weight to the scuttlebutt that the government was behind the Oklahoma bombing.
- So far, the scuttlebutt knocked down by ABC does not seem to be generating the hue and cry it did when ABC considered whacking Nightline in 2002 to give the time slot to David .
- Industry scuttlebutt has it that Will Smith was offered the lead in The Matrix before Reeves, but passed.