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grape

  [greyp]
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–noun
1. the edible, pulpy, smooth-skinned berry or fruit that grows in clusters on vines of the genus Vitis, and from which wine is made.
2. any vine bearing this fruit.
3. a dull, dark, purplish-red color.
4. grapes, (used with a singular verb) Veterinary Pathology.
a. tuberculosis occurring in cattle, characterized by the internal formation of grapelike clusters, esp. in the lungs.
b. tuberculosis occurring in horses, characterized by grapelike clusters on the fetlocks.
5. grapeshot.
6. the grape, wine.
Origin:
1200–50; ME < OF, var. of crape cluster of fruit or flowers, orig. hook < Gmc; cf. G Krapf hook and grappel, grapnel

Related forms:
grapelike, adjective
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grape(s)

  1. n.
    champagne; wine. (See also berries.) : No more of the grapes for me. It tickles my nose.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

grape 
c.1250, from O.Fr. grape "bunch of grapes," from graper "pick grapes," from Frankish, from P.Gmc. *krappon "hook" (cf. O.H.G. krapfo "hook"). The original notion was "vine hook for grape-picking." The vine is not native to England. The word replaced O.E. winberige "wine berry." Grapefruit first recorded 1693 in Hans Sloane's catalogue of Jamaican plants; presumably it originated there from chance hybrids between other cultivated citrus. So called because it grows in clusters. Grapeshot is from 1747; originally simply grape, as a collective singular (1687). Grapevine "rumor source" is 1862, from U.S. Civil War slang for "telegraph wires."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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