I had just provided him with some hot gossip, and signaled that he could spread it freely.

"You know he's an arms runner," he said, making it sound more like a piece of hot gossip than an accusation or a warning.

Tippen told me it was the hot gossip at Patrick's last night.

Certainly not a considerable number of ladies, according to hot gossip and well informed rumour.

He had some hot gossip: "Windows 95 mastered today."

In February, other students at the school were buzzing with the "hot gossip," as one administrator put it, that the 10-year-old had been "raped."

But they would definitely be trying to get all the gory details, hot gossip they could share over coffee with other friends the next day.

I think what changed his mind was the chance of picking up a piece of hot gossip on the murder of the month.

"In other words, Carol Marcus and I are hot gossip."

The hottest gossip no longer appears in print; tasty titbits are passed on verbally.