Meaning of mukluk telegraph | Babel Free

Definitions

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

idiomatic, informal, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

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