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Re:A High-End Mover Dishes on Truckstop Hierarchy, Rich Peop... by to3m on Friday September 22, 2017 @06:22PM (#15316425)
But typically you specifically "dish the dirt". "Dish" on its own is not a valid verb, at least not in the version of English I speak. I don't know why.

(Interestingly, OS X's Dictionary app says that a Britishism is to use "dish" as a verb meaning "destroy or defeat". Don't recall ever hearing this, though...)

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Re:A High-End Mover Dishes on Truckstop Hierarchy, Rich Peop... by mturmon on Friday September 22, 2017 @08:48PM (#15317325)
"Dish" as a verb indicating gossip is informal, but according to Merriam-Webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dish + scroll down), it can be both a transitive and intransitive verb (i.e., used with an object, or not).
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