Tell-all

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ôl

Full definition of tell-all

Noun

1. A publication, usually a book or magazine article, which tells all; revealing everything, particularly what is normally withheld.
• 2011, Star Jones, Satan's Sisters: A Novel Work of Fiction, page 23:Of all the people in the world to write a tell-all about The Lunch Club, it had to be Missy Adams?!
• 2010, Zoe Fishman, Balancing Acts: A Novel, page 357:Surprise! I wrote a tell-all about each and every one of you!
• 2009, Kennedy Shaw, Tour of Duty, page 308:Mikerra had been offered a seven-figure book deal for a tell-all chronicling her relationship with Senator McCaffrey, his death, and the project's ultimate demise.
• 1998, Laurie Stone, Close to the Bone: Memoirs of Hurt, Rage, and Desire, page xi:At this point, we could all write a tell-all about our tabloid childhoods and contrive an autobiographical performance about the pleasures of humiliation.

Adjective

1. That which tells all; revealing everything, particularly what is normally withheld.The statesman's tell-all memoirs were not published until long after death.Open source is a tell-all software development strategy.