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tell-all

noun

: a written account (such as a biography) that contains revealing and often scandalous information
tell-all adjective

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One more tell-all interview, and the erasure accelerates. Rob Shuter, HollywoodReporter, 14 Nov. 2025 The site also reports that the Duchess is planning to write a tell-all memoir and Andrew is infuriated. Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 14 Nov. 2025 With court cases, exposé docuseries, and tell-all memoirs plaguing the Housewives universe, fans will be watching like a hawk, if a hawk had a Peacock subscription. Bethy Squires, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025 When a publisher approached Deakins about writing a book, thinking of it more as a straightforward autobiography or Hollywood tell-all, Deakins was much more interested in the roadmap of how people get started as storytellers and the usually unusual, winding roads their careers take them on. Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 11 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tell-all

Word History

First Known Use

1940, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of tell-all was in 1940

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“Tell-all.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tell-all. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.

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