"hear on the grapevine" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hears on the grapevine",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hearing on the grapevine",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heard on the grapevine",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heard on the grapevine",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hear<,,heard> on the grapevine"
      },
      "expansion": "hear on the grapevine (third-person singular simple present hears on the grapevine, present participle hearing on the grapevine, simple past and past participle heard on the grapevine)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 124:",
          "text": "'[…] But most of me mad dad's crew took off to American from what I can make out' - he's talking too much, he has to stop - 'from what I hear on the family grapevine, that's where they went, New York, their loss as far as I'm concerned, don't know what they're missing, eh? […]'",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hear as rumor; to learn through friends of friends, etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-hear_on_the_grapevine-en-verb-Dp34O3y5",
      "links": [
        [
          "rumor",
          "rumor"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, informal) To hear as rumor; to learn through friends of friends, etc."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hear through the grapevine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "word": "hear on the grapevine"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hears on the grapevine",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "hearing on the grapevine",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heard on the grapevine",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heard on the grapevine",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hear<,,heard> on the grapevine"
      },
      "expansion": "hear on the grapevine (third-person singular simple present hears on the grapevine, present participle hearing on the grapevine, simple past and past participle heard on the grapevine)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 124:",
          "text": "'[…] But most of me mad dad's crew took off to American from what I can make out' - he's talking too much, he has to stop - 'from what I hear on the family grapevine, that's where they went, New York, their loss as far as I'm concerned, don't know what they're missing, eh? […]'",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hear as rumor; to learn through friends of friends, etc."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rumor",
          "rumor"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, informal) To hear as rumor; to learn through friends of friends, etc."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "hear through the grapevine"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hear on the grapevine"
}