playground rumor
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.46 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An imaginative rumor, misconception, or urban legend spread among children, or regarded as similarly unconvincing.
noun
An imaginative rumor, misconception, or urban legend spread among children, or regarded as similarly unconvincing.
Example Sentences
- "However, the onslaught of information about H1N1 -- be it playground rumors, employer signs telling you to cover your cough, memos from your kids' school, or scary-sounding news reports -- is making it pretty hard to figure out what you should be doing right now."
- "In what sounds like an elementary school playground rumor, a TikTok dentist has warned her followers that cavities can spread by kissing."
- "Of course, that’s not the only such moment in Poltergeist, as those who dared to check out the source of all those playground rumors found out."
- "Beaver had his moments—like forgetting his homework, falling for playground rumors, or being unsure how to handle a tricky situation—but Mathers was much more brave and self-assured."
- "Something about the new handheld from Nintendo has captured my kid’s imagination. The thing is, I’m not exactly sure how they have found out so much about it. Their overblown expectations and exaggerated claims about the device seem to suggest the playground rumor mill to me."
- "Almost immediately following the official release of The Indigo Disk expansion for Pokémon Scarlet & Violet, datamining revealed that players should be able to encounter the Mythical Pokémon Meloetta somewhere in the new map. Despite this, it took two days for anyone to actually successfully do so. Fans of the “Mew is under the truck” playground rumor from back in the day get ready, as the method for actually finding this musical mystery is extremely specific."