kiss-and-tell

kiss-and-tell
kiss-and-tell [kis′ən tel′]
adj.
Informal revealing personal or confidential information, as about a well-known person, gained from the author's close relationship with that person [a kiss-and-tell memoir]

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kiss-and-tell (kĭsʹən-tĕlʹ) adj. Informal
Disclosing private or confidential information, especially in a first-hand account:

a kiss-and-tell memoir by a Presidential aide.

  kiss and tell n.

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