grapevine

Synonyms for grapevine

noun vine

noun. unsubstantiated information

noun. talk about supposed truth

1736, from grape + vine. Meaning "rumor source" is 1862, U.S. Civil War slang for "telegraph wires."

The pioneers wrought as best they might on the Grapevine Bridge.

He folded the piece of carpet and laid it over the grapevine.

Before the grapevine swayed again, the Sparrows were far away.

There is something in the north that is called “Grapevine telegraph.”

On a tiny hillock was a small gallows with grapevine attachment.

On another occasion we found a nest in the top of a grapevine.

Felix didn't make a grapevine rope, did he, and pull me up the cliff?

The "grapevine telegraph" was an "institution" during the whole war.

In the cities, almost every house may have a grapevine or two where nothing else would grow.

And there he was, dangling on the end of the grapevine rope like an apple on a string.