Meanings
- idiomaticinformaluncountableThe spread of information and gossip by word of mouth in rural Alaska.
Somehow, over the mukluk telegraph, I got the message and came into town and got him.
2003, Jeff Davis, Fifty-Five Years in the Alaskan Bush: The John Swiss Story, →ISBN, page 922 more 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.
1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 104That along with the friends that I was talking to formed quite a mukluk telegraph for keeping track of the competition.
2015, Burt Bomhoff, Iditarod Alaska: Life of a Long Distance Sled Dog Musher, →ISBNSynonyms: mukluk wireless
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe spread of information and gossip by word of mouth in rural Alaska.
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