grips
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Definitions ofgrips
- To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
Example: "After a few slips, the tires gripped the pavement."
- To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense.
Example: "He grips me."
- To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.
Example: "Let’s grip (get a coffee, hang, take a break, see a movie, etc.)"
- To trench; to drain.
- A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
Example: "It's good to have a firm grip when shaking hands."
- A handle or other place to grip.
Example: "There are several good grips on the northern face of this rock."
- A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
- (film production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
- A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
- A lot of something.
Example: "That is a grip of cheese."
- A long time.
Example: "I haven't seen you in a grip."
- A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
- An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
- Assistance; help or encouragement.
Example: "He gave me a grip."
- A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
Example: "You're a real grip."
- As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
Example: "I need to get a grip of nails for my project."
- A tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
Example: "in the grip of a blackmailer"
- A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
- A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
- The griffin.
- Influenza, the flu.
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