grapevine

== English == === Alternative forms === grape vine, grape-vine === Etymology === From grape +‎ vine. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “non-literal senses”) === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹeɪp.vaɪn/ === Noun === grapevine (plural grapevines) The plant, a vine of genus Vitis, on which grapes grow. Synonym: (rare) winetree An informal person-to-person means of circulating information or gossip. Synonyms: jungle drums, bush telegraph, jungle telegraph, mulga wire, rumor mill 1966, Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong (songwriters), "I Heard It Through the Grapevine": I heard it through the grapevine Not much longer would you be mine. (rare, apparently primarily Indian English) A rumor. 2016, indiaglitz.com, "Thampi Kannanthanam confirms that Mohanlal's Rajavinte Makan Sequel not dropped" [2] An image of Mohanlal with a tonsured head recently spread online and people started guessing about the film it belonged to. The majority guess was for a film directed by Prajith which had announced a character that was supposed to be acted by Mohanlal named Benz Vasu. But the director denied the grapevine and more guesses and assumptions starting flowing in. (skating) A move in which the feet are alternately placed in front of each other, while both remaining on the ice or ground, incorporating half-turns. (wrestling) A leglock. A dance figure in partner dancing that includes sidesteps and steps across the support foot. See Grapevine (dance move). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== === Verb === grapevine (third-person singular simple present grapevines, present participle grapevining, simple past and past participle grapevined) (transitive, wrestling) To restrain in a leglock. (transitive) To drape or curl around adjacent objects. (intransitive) To move one's body in a smooth undulating wave while stepping in the direction the wave is moving. (transitive) To score mortar at a joint. (transitive, intransitive) Of information, to spread as a rumor. (transitive, intransitive) Of a person or group, to spread (a rumor). (transitive) To link up through an informal communication network.