Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun scuttlebutt

1 sense of scuttlebutt

Sense 1
gossip, comment, scuttlebutt -- (a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people; "the divorce caused much gossip")
       => report, account -- (the act of informing by verbal report; "he heard reports that they were causing trouble"; "by all accounts they were a happy couple")