grapevine

Meaning

Noun

1. The plant, a vine of genus Vitis, on which grapes grow.
2. An informal person-to-person means of circulating information or gossip.
3. (rare) A rumor.
4. 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.
5. A leglock.
6. A dance figure in partner dancing that includes sidesteps and steps across the support foot. See Grapevine (dance move).

Verb

1. (transitive) To restrain in a leglock.
2. (transitive) To drape or curl around adjacent objects.
3. (intransitive) To move one's body in a smooth undulating wave while stepping in the direction the wave is moving.
4. (transitive) To score mortar at a joint.
5. (intransitive, transitive) Of information, to spread as a rumor.
6. (intransitive, transitive) Of a person or group, to spread (a rumor).
7. (transitive) To link up through an informal communication network.

Synonyms

vine

grape

pipeline

grape vine

word of mouth

hold

liana

liane

rumor

scuttlebutt

grapevine telegraph

double fisherman’s knot

leg scissors

bush telegraph

rumor mill

canard

creeper

grapes

🍇

hearsay

Translations

vigne

vid

videira

vite

wijnstok

Weinstock

αμπέλι

Weinrebe

Rebe

parreira

vitis

wingerd

parra

κλήμα

Etymology

From grape + vine.