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grapevine

 noun
     
Related topics: Plants
grape‧vine [countable]
1

hear something on the grapevine

to hear about something because the information has been passed from one person to another in conversation:
I heard about his resignation on the grapevine.
2HBP a climbing plant on which grapes grow [= vine]
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