| 单词 | moccasin telegraph |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmoccasin telegraph moccasin telegraph n. North American a means for the rapid or surreptitious transmission of information (cf. bush telegraph n. at bush n.1 Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > rumour > [noun] > route by which rumour is passed grapevinea1867 bush telegraph1878 moccasin telegram1908 moccasin telegraph1909 1909 A. D. Cameron New North 349 And now, apprised by moccasin telegraph, we are all on the qui vive to catch sight of a floating bride. 1927 Sat. Evening Post 23 July 3/3 That agency known to white men as the Moccasin Telegraph, by which odd bits of news are flashed from one isolated native camp to another. 1991 P. C. Newman Merchant Princes xii. 240 Davoud flew HBC executives on their first aerial inspection tour in the summer of 1940, much to the unwelcome surprise of local store managers, used to getting warnings of visits by Company brass via the staff moccasin telegraph. < as lemmas |
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