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grapevine
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Wikipedia
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The Grapevine is a dance figure in partner dancing that shares a common appearance, with some variation, in ballroom , club , and folk dances . It includes side steps and steps across the support foot . The step is used, for example, in the Foxtrot , Polka ...
WordNet
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n. gossip spread by spoken communication; "the news of their affair was spread by word of mouth" [syn: pipeline , word of mouth ] any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries [syn: grape ]
Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 42059 Housing Units (2000): 16486 Land area (2000): 32.279661 sq. miles (83.603934 sq. km) Water area (2000): 3.576018 sq. miles (9.261845 sq. km) Total area (2000): 35.855679 sq. miles (92.865779 sq. km) FIPS code: 30644 Located within: ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He had heard as much on the grapevine around the office. ▪ If a collector had acquired the ancient cross, Wartski's experts might have heard of it through the dealers' grapevine . ▪ In a week the displaced honeysuckle vines, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The plant, a vine of genus ''Vitis'', on which grapes grow. 2 A rumor. 3 An informal person-to-person means of circulate information or gossip. 4 (lb en skating) A move in which the feet are alternately placed in front of each other, while both remaining ...
Usage examples of grapevine.
Now the hospital grapevine would conclude that he intended to take a wife, and who better than Claribel Brown, who was a nice girl anyway?
At a respectful distance stood a sizeable crowd of somber and ragged citizens from the town, summoned by whatever served as a grapevine in that grapeless land.
North Rim of the Grand Canyon or the slopes of Denali in summer, crossing the Salt River or the Scablands, coming into Zion from the east, dropping into Panamint Valley from the west, rolling down the Phantom Canyon behind Pikes Peak, winding down Grapevine Canyon into Death Valley .
If he had, Jeffrey would have thought reports of such bizarre reactions would have filtered through the grapevine.
Rodney controlled the grapevine rumors and gossip and knew more about OPD lawyers and their caseloads than Glenda, the Director.
Tomorrow he would have Elvira, who could do more tricks with a six-inch dick than a monkey could with a hundred foot of grapevine, then he would heal and a new outsider would come through and they would train together and then they would mate in blood and sweat in the depths of the pit.
The graceful and fantastic grapevine is a feature of great beauty, and its wandering festoons bear no more resemblance to our well-trained vines, than our stunted azalias, and tiny magnolias, to their thriving American kindred.
Palestine, was smeared on the woody parts of grapevines to prevent the growth of smuts and moulds.
Here were low terraced hills planted to grapevines and a scrubby tree Paks had never seen before.
On the slopes, grapevines had sprouted tufts of furry greenish-white leaflets.
Avelyn images of the rolling hills, the wheatfields, and grapevines of Youmaneff.
She saw nothing of James, and heard on the grapevine that Clarissa had been flown to see a specialist in America who ran a clinic that had a spectacular record of success with her particular type of problem.
That was the extent of Corky Gonzales' involvement in the Salazar incident, and at a glance it seems hardly worth mentioning -- except for a rumor on the Los Angeles lawyers' grapevine that the robbery charge was only a ruse, a necessary holding action, to set Gonzales up for a "Chicano Seven" conspiracy bust -- charging that he came from Denver to Los Angeles with the intention of causing a riot.
Choked by briers and grapevines, blocked by sliding stones and earth, it rose and rose through the heat and burden of the day until it lost itself in the open heights.
Marlene's friends from overseas had heard about it… bullshit traveled all the way from South America to LA by the grapevine.