Definitions for GRIPS

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GRIPS grip

Spelling: [grip]

IPA: /grɪp/

Grips is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in GRIPS (giprs).

Definitions for GRIPS

noun

1. the act of grasping; a seizing and holding fast; firm grasp.
2. the power of gripping:
3. a grasp, hold, or control.
4. mental or intellectual hold:
5. competence or firmness in dealing with situations in one's work or personal affairs:
6. a special mode of clasping hands:
7. something that seizes and holds, as a clutching device on a cable car.
8. a handle or hilt:
9. a sudden, sharp pain; spasm of pain.
10. grippe.
11. Older Use. a small traveling bag.
12. Theater. a stagehand, especially one who works on the stage floor. Movies, Television. a general assistant available on a film set for shifting scenery, moving furniture, etc.

Idioms

1. come to grips with, to encounter; meet; cope with: to deal with directly or firmly:

verb (used with object)

1. to grasp or seize firmly; hold fast:
2. to take hold on; hold the interest of:
3. to attach by a grip or clutch.

verb (used without object)

1. to take firm hold; hold fast.
2. to take hold on the mind.

Origin of GRIPS

before 900; Middle English, Old English gripe grasp (noun); cognate with German Griff, Old English gripa handful; see gripe

Examples for GRIPS

How is he dealing with both parts of his life escaping his grip?

Whereupon they shook hands with a grip that whitened their knuckles.

Peter slammed its door to, crushing them so that he loosed his grip, with a howl.

And when the wrenching at his forearms ceased he instantly relaxed his grip.

"Now put your hand up an' grip that rope that's hangin' there," commanded Brad.

And why did the Western Powers lose their grip in such a spectacular fashion in the decade following the end of the war?

“They think Putin is the only evil in Russia and dream about getting rid of him,” he said, tightening his grip on the wheel.

In 1993, the military eased its grip and offered a transition to civilian governance.

Only, I—I sort of lost my grip on the way here, with this man by my side.

As Davies tells it, monogamy did not have much of a grip on the upper levels of public life.