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grape
noun- wine US, 1898
Often used in the plural. - I don’t conk out on grape! — Dan Burley, Diggeth Thou?, p. 34, 1959
- I ordered one of those Hawaiian punch drinks – sans grape, natch. — Frederick Kohner, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, p. 35, 1961
- If they saw him he’d be forced to share it with them, just as they were when he caught one of them with the groovy grape. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 54, 1968
- He was just a Deep South chump driven to the grape by the con-fusion and disappointment of a big city. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Trick Baby, p. 42, 1969
- The wine bottle, the reefer, or Jesus. A taste of grape, the weed or the cross. — H. Rap Brown, Die Nigger Die!, p. 17, 1969
- There’s a wine store, baby; let’s chip in and get a couple bottles of grapes. — Donald Goines, Dopefiend, p. 95, 1971
- We took another bottle of the beautiful grape with us. — Odie Hawkins, Scars and Memories, p. 176, 1987
- Dot Parker was no stranger to the grape[.] — Terry Southern, Now Dig This, p. 206, 2001
- gossip US, 1864
A shortening of GRAPEVINE - — Don R. McCreary (Editor), Dawg Speak, 2001
- in the language of car salesmen, a promising potential customer US
Like the grape, the customer is “ripe for picking”. - — American Speech, p. 312, Autumn-Winter 1975: “The jargon of car salesmen”
- a member of a flight deck refuelling crew US, 1986
- The “grapes,” the puple-shirted members of a refueling crew, hauled out a heavy hose from the catwalk alongside the flight deck[.] — Gerry Carroll, North S*A*R, p. 170, 1991
- — Seattle Times, p. A9, 12 April 1998: “Grunts, squids not grunting from the same dictionary”
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