Meanings
nounblind item (plural blind items)
plural blind items
- A news story in which the identities of the persons involved are not revealed.
Judy came from a different era, when blind items stayed blind and you could control the story.
2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 435
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