the scuttlebutt: rumor/gossip. It's actually a nautical term for a cask used to serve water for immediate consumption. Sailors would gossip around the scuttlebutt while congregating for a drink of water.
Sailors always congregate around the scuttlebutt to find out the latest gossip on the ship!
by The Scuttlebutt January 25, 2014
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1. (Slang) Gossip; rumor
2. (Nautical) A drinking fountain on a ship; a cask on a ship used to hold the day's supply of drinking water.
3. (noun) a report (often malicious) about the doings of other people
I was hanging out at the scuttlebutt, waiting to get some water when I heard some good scuttlebutt on Vern and an inflatable sheep.
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A strip club located in Slidell, Louisiana which is about 30 minuets away from new orleans. Any one who lives here could tell you that Scuttlebutt is a strip club full of white trash/chunky/nasty chicks.
Go to Bourbon st. for a real strip club.
me: have you ever been to scuttlebutts
dad: yea, me and paul saw a girl there with one arm, we call her flipper.

roger:did you hear that ---- works at scuttlebutt now?
me: hahahaha no way
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1. pish-posh, lies, rumors, obviously false statement
2. a person who lies or spreads rumors
3. a group on myspace for people who like to make up words
Demi and Joe are dating? That's SUCH scuttlebutt!
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The act of a dog dragging its ass across the carpet.
Moooommmm, your dog scuttlebutted across your floor again! (being yelled from the basement of your parents house)
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