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mukluk telegraph

noun

Definitions

  1. The spread of information and gossip by word of mouth in rural Alaska.

    • He lived here, and although something told her he wasn't a member in good standing of the congregation of the Chistona Little Chapel, maybe he'd heard something over the mukluk telegraph.
    • Somehow, over the mukluk telegraph, I got the message and came into town and got him.
    • That along with the friends that I was talking to formed quite a mukluk telegraph for keeping track of the competition.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mukluk telegraph. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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