WORD OF MOUTH

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gossip spread by spoken communication

Example:

the news of their affair was spread by word of mouth

Synonyms:

grapevine; pipeline; word of mouth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("word of mouth" is a kind of...):

comment; gossip; scuttlebutt (a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people)

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