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concrete. A body of gossips.
A body of gossips (see gossip, n. 3).
The class of gossips as a whole; the realm of gossip.
The Rhesus monkey, Macaca mulatta. Also in Bandar-log, Kipling's nation of monkeys (see quot. 1895); hence figurative, any body of irresponsible…