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n. Slang Gossip; rumor.

n. Nautical A drinking fountain on a ship.

n. Nautical A cask on a ship used to hold the day's supply of drinking water.

n. A butt with a scuttle, a keg of drinking water with a hole cut in it, on board ship.

n. Gossip, rumour, idle chatter.

n. a butt or cask with a large hole in it, used to contain the fresh water for daily use in a ship.

n. See scuttle butt.

n. A drinking fountain on board a ship or at a naval station.

n. The latest gossip; rumors.

n. Nautical, a cask or butt having a scuttle or hole cut in it for the introduction of a cup or dipper, and used to hold drinking-water. Also called scuttle-cask.

n. a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people

"The scuttlebutt is that the RNC might step in a help pay off those debts."

report    account   

water cooler    furphy   

scandal    grapevine    earful    malicious gossip    rumour    rumor    hearsay    pipeline    word of mouth    talk of the town   

rumors    scuttle-cask    chatter   

north-northeast    up    holdfast    agitprop    rift    bogeymen    dicks    immobilization    scorning    biddies