Usually means: Informal network spreading news quickly.
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  1. bush telegraph: Merriam-Webster
  2. bush telegraph: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bush telegraph: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bush-telegraph: Wordnik
  5. bush telegraph: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. bush-telegraph, bush telegraph: Wiktionary
  7. bush telegraph: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. bush telegraph: Dictionary.com
  9. Bush Telegraph: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. bush telegraph: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. the bush telegraph: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bush telegraph: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (bush telegraph)

noun:  (idiomatic) A system used by undeveloped societies in remote regions for communication over long distances, such as drum sounds, word-of-mouth relay, or smoke signals.
noun:  (idiomatic) A gossip network.

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