[Ads-l] scuttle, n.

[Jonathan Lighter]

'Scuttlebutt.'

1985 Gar Wilson _Sea of Savages_  (Toronto: Gold Eagle)  81: What's the
scuttle on the street, Mahmud?

1995 Wilhelmina Baird _Psykosis_ (N.Y.: Ace Books) 67: "What's the scuttle
with the sailors?" "They think we're nuts."

2015 Leslie Budewitz _Guity as Cinnamon_  (N.Y.: Berkley) 90: So what's the
scuttle on me?

2025 _The Weekend_ (MSNBC) (June 14): What is the scuttle at the Defense
Department over marines being deployed to Los Angeles? ... Is there any
concerned water-cooler talk?

 Now with 1/3 less effort.

JL
-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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