A short account of an amusing, interesting, or telling incident, whether real or fictitious; an anecdote.

A short account of an amusing, interesting, or telling incident or experience; sometimes with implications of superficiality or unreliability.

Anecdotes; anecdotal writing or content.

slang. An anecdote. In recent use also: a quotation.

A short history or story; an anecdote.

A far-fetched or fabricated story; a lie (cf. Anansi, n. compounds). Occasionally also: a superstition.

In weakened or non-pejorative sense: an anecdote, tale, ‘tall story’. lie and story n. gossip. Originally and chiefly Black English.