1. gossip spread by spoken communication; - Example: "the news of their affair was spread by word of mouth" [syn: grapevine, pipeline, word of mouth]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
word of mouth
n 1: gossip spread by spoken communication; "the news of their
affair was spread by word of mouth" [syn: grapevine,
pipeline, word of mouth]