grapevine

1. (transitive, wrestling) To restrain in a leglock.Examples: "From the top he grapevined his leg around Tibbits' leg and planted his elbow in his opponent's opposite side."; "The Low Mount is the position where your hips are tight to your opponent's and your legs are usually grapevined or locked underneath his."; "So now she's grapevined me, I can't straighten my legs, which means I can't generate the momentum I need to bridge."transitive

2. (transitive) To drape or curl around adjacent objects.Examples: "This results from the plug wires being grapevined around each other too closely."; "I drove around town looking at the limp glitter of Christmas decorations grapevined around traffic lights which just blinked after a certain hour, even on a Friday night."; "Balance on the back of the sit bones with the arms “grapevined” under the calves, with hands wrapping around to hold the ankles."transitive

3. (intransitive) To move one's body in a smooth undulating wave while stepping in the direction the wave is moving.Examples: "Up on the stage, the dancers twirled and whirled in time to the music and then grapevined across the broad expanse and exited stage left."; "The underwear-baker grapevined down the length of the display and grabbed a to-go box from the stack on top of it."; "When the room grapevined left, I grapevined right, causing a head-on collision with the lady next to me."intransitive

4. (transitive) To score mortar at a joint.Examples: "The bridge is faced with rusticated stone and grapevined mortar joints, a trademark of WPA-built structures in southeast Colorado, and features beveled stone piers, corbeled copings and tapered voussoirs for the arches."; "Generally the mortar line was “grapevined” (scored) and “penciled” (the score painted with a fine white line), which separated each brick."transitive

5. (transitive, intransitive) Of information, to spread as a rumor.Examples: "For several years, as Mr. Watson's challenge gradually grapevined its way through the business world, many business groups asked Mr. Russell to speak at their directors' meetings and conventions."; "But the story grapevined around to Marshal Petain."; "Word of the fight grapevined fast, and from all the other bonus army camps reinforcements rushed in."intransitivetransitive

6. (transitive, intransitive) Of a person or group, to spread (a rumor).Examples: "The doctor's orders were soon grapevined around the league, and all the bench jockeys on the circuit were quickly counting ten on every pitch Lefty made."; "His flock had already grapevined the what and why."; "It will not only be long remembered by the nine million Chinese on Formosa and the twelve and half million overseas Chinese, but will soon be grapevined to the Chinese mainland and whispered there from person to person among the hundreds of millions of Chinese who have been living and suffering for the last five years under Communist tyranny."intransitivetransitive