Gossip, n.: Hearing something you like about someone you don't.

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

We're told we're not supposed to gossip, that our reputation plummets, but in this context there may be an expectation that you should gossip: you're obligated to tell, like an informal version of the honor code at military academies,

I couldn't hear anything because my ears had been blasted, ... I had temporary hearing loss. The tent was full of smoke and dust. Of course Jim was screaming in pain and bleeding. And I reached for my vest to throw over him to protect him from what else was going to happen.

It looks like we may be on schedule, possibly for an Act 34 hearing sometime around December 12, if everything goes well,

In all my years on the prowl, I never got over the thrill of hearing the first boom and seeing what it did to a massive block of steel.