talk of the town

1. 1.

   idle gossip or rumor

   “there has been talk about you lately”

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   Broadergossip

Questions about talk of the town

What does talk of the town mean?

talk of the town means "idle gossip or rumor".

What is another word for talk of the town?

Close synonyms include talk. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is talk of the town a common word?

talk of the town is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.