Green’s Dictionary of Slang

news, information, gossip.

1983		New Society 10 Mar. 384/2: Its [i.e. the telephone] chief function is to facilitate a good long gossip or ‘gozz’.
1999		J. Poller Reach 73: What’s the scuttlebutt? [...] You know – the rumour, the goss.
2000		N. Barlay Crumple Zone 160: Anyway, you want some goss, here it comes.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl.
2009		L. McIlvanney All the Colours 313: It [i.e. a website for journalists] carries job ads and media goss.
2010		L. Redhead Thrill City [ebook] I’d also managed to get some goss on the wedding.
2017		V. McDermid Insidious Intent (2018) 213: ‘Promise u the full goss’.
2019		P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 73: ‘[H]angs around stables, hears all the goss’.
2021		P Howard Braywatch 151: ‘But – oh my God – I have the biggest goss! Garret was there!’.