grapevine

Meanings

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. 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).

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

1. A place in the United States:
2. An unincorporated community in Grant County, Arkansas.
3. An unincorporated community in Kern County, California, at the foot of a grade called The Grapevine.
4. An unincorporated community in Hopkins County, Kentucky.
5. A city in Tarrant County, Texas.

Etymology

From grape + vine.