grapevine telegraph

Variant of grapevine

grapevine definition

grape·vine (grāp′vīn′)

noun

  1. any of the woody vines that bear grapes
  2. ☆ a secret means of spreading or receiving information; also, the spreading of news or gossip from one person to another: with the

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