moccasin telegraph
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.29 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
14
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An informal communication network among the native peoples in North America.
Example Sentences
- "Most had refused to believe the gruesome news brought to the stockade walls by the moccasin telegraph of the Crow, Sioux and Cheyenne."
- "But I'd heard stories about them through the moccasin telegraph."
- "The moccasin telegraph carried messages from the last non-treaty leader of importance, Sitting Bull, to tribesmen still on the various reservations in Dakota and Nebraska territory."
- "Nor should we find ourselves surprised at the relative but growing success of native cultural producers elsewhere: the 1491s, a young comedy troupe whose short satirical productions go viral on the electronic moccasin telegraphs of Facebook and Twitter; A Tribe Called Red, an electronic music group that has attained a fan base in the dance and hip-hop scenes that far exceeds the native community; and other examples."