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noun
Common talk
hearsay, gossip, report, news, tidings, intelligence, dispatch, scandal, tittle-tattle, word of mouth, grapevine, talk, noise, cry, popular report, fame, repute, bruit, scuttlebutt*, buzz*. An unsubstantial story
canard, hoax, fabrication, suggestion, supposition, innuendo, story, tale, invention, fiction, falsehood; see also lie 1.
See rumor in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
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