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grapevine

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grape⋅vine

  [greyp-vahyn]
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–noun
1. a vine that bears grapes.
2. Also called grapevine telegraph. a person-to-person method of spreading rumors, gossip, information, etc., by informal or unofficial conversation, letter writing, or the like.
3. a private or secret source of information.
Origin:
1645–55; 1860–65, Americanism for def. 2; grape + vine
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Grape⋅vine

  [greyp-vahyn]
–noun
a town in N Texas. 11,801.
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grape·vine   (grāp'vīn')   
n.  

  1. A vine on which grapes grow.

    1. The informal transmission of information, gossip, or rumor from person to person.

    2. A usually unrevealed source of confidential information.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
grapevine

  1. n.
    an informal communications network. : I heard on the grapevine that Sam is moving to the east.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Computing Dictionary

Grapevine
A distributed system project.
[Who? Where? Why?]

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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