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coconut telegraph noun the informal way in which news travels in the Caribbean US, 1989- Anyway you slice it, the coconut telegraph had transmitted this coup-de-something in no time around the islands and it had become history ever since. — Frederick Kohner, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, p. 49, 1961
- Kirk can get in touch with me on the Coconut Telegraph and I will meet you there. — Jimmy Buffett, Tales from Margaritaville, p. 61, 1989
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