gossip mill

See also: gossip-mill

English

Alternative forms

• gossip-mill

Noun

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.