Usually means: Rumors or gossip among people.
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  1. scuttlebutt: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. scuttlebutt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scuttlebutt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scuttlebutt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scuttlebutt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scuttlebutt, scuttlebutt: Wordnik
  7. scuttlebutt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scuttlebutt: Wiktionary
  9. scuttlebutt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. scuttlebutt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scuttlebutt: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. scuttlebutt: Dictionary.com
  13. scuttlebutt: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. scuttlebutt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Scuttlebutt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. scuttlebutt: Rhymezone
  17. scuttlebutt: Free Dictionary
  18. scuttlebutt: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. scuttlebutt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Scuttlebutt: The Word Detective
  21. scuttlebutt: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. Scuttlebutt: World Wide Words

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scuttlebutt: Legal dictionary

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  1. scuttlebutt: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scuttlebutt, scuttlebutt: A Word A Day

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scuttlebutt: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. scuttlebutt: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable, nautical) Originally (now chiefly historical), a cask with a hole cut into its top, used to provide drinking water on board a ship; now (by extension, informal), a drinking fountain on a modern ship.
noun:  (uncountable, originally US, nautical slang) Gossip, idle chatter; also, rumour.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To spread (information) by way of gossip or rumour.
verb:  (intransitive) To chat idly or gossip; also, to spread rumours.

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