Gossipfest

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A session of enthusiastic gossip. slang

    "Still, United Artists’ future will depend on reversing a growing perception — fed by an Internet culture that publicizes notions once confined to lunchtime gossipfests — that the studio took a wrong turn shortly after Ms. Wagner joined Mr. Cruise, her longtime producing partner, in agreeing a year and a half ago to reboot it as their own venture with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which had previously owned the company outright."

Example

More examples

"Still, United Artists’ future will depend on reversing a growing perception — fed by an Internet culture that publicizes notions once confined to lunchtime gossipfests — that the studio took a wrong turn shortly after Ms. Wagner joined Mr. Cruise, her longtime producing partner, in agreeing a year and a half ago to reboot it as their own venture with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which had previously owned the company outright."

Etymology

From gossip + -fest.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.