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grapevine
noun- a network of rumour or gossip; the mysterious source of rumours US, 1862
- Word buzzed through the grapevine about the new "fish"[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 10, 1946
- How should I know? The grapevine don’t come from one guy. — Mickey Spillane, My Gun is Quick, p. 38, 1950
- She realizes it wasn’t grapevine magic that tipped Baptiste to her mother’s visit. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Doom Fox, p. 99, 1978
- a line, especially a washing line UK
Rhyming slang, often shortened to “grape”. - — Ray Puxley, Cockney Rabbit, 1992
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