bamboo telegraph

bamboo telegraph
noun or bamboo wireless
: the Oceanian native grapevine telegraph

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bamboo telegraph,
the means by which news and rumors are quickly spread in countries of the Orient; grapevine. See also bush telegraph. (Cf.bush telegraph)

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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