grip

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English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: grĭp, IPA(key): /ɡɹɪp/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪp

Etymology 1

From Middle English grippen, from Old English grippan, from a Proto-Germanic *gripjaną (compare Old High German gripfen); compare the related Old English grīpan, whence English gripe. See also grope, and the related Proto-Germanic *grīpaną.

Verb

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  1. (transitive) To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess‎[1]:
      When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.
    That suitcase is heavy, so grip the handle firmly.
    The glue will begin to grip within five minutes.
    After a few slips, the tires gripped the pavement.
  2. (transitive) To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense.
    • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
      By and by fumes of brandy began to fill the air, and climb to where I lay, overcoming the mouldy smell of decayed wood and the dampness of the green walls. It may have been that these fumes mounted to my head, and gave me courage not my own, but so it was that I lost something of the stifling fear that had gripped me, and could listen with more ease to what was going forward
    He grips me.
  3. (intransitive) To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.
    Let’s grip (get a coffee, hang, take a break, see a movie, etc.)
  4. To trench; to drain.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
to grip — see grasp

Etymology 2

From Middle English grippe, gripe, an amalgam of Old English gripe (“grasp, hold”) (cognate with German Griff) and Old English gripa (“handful”) (cognate with Swedish grepp).

Noun

grip (countable and uncountable, plural grips)

  1. A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
    It's good to have a firm grip when shaking hands.
    The ball will move differently depending on the grip used when throwing it.
  2. A handle or other place to grip.
    the grip of a sword
    There are several good grips on the northern face of this rock.
  3. (computing, graphical user interface) A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
  4. (film production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
  5. A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
  6. (chiefly Southern California slang) A lot of something.
    That is a grip of cheese.
  7. (chiefly Southern California slang) A long time.
    I haven't seen you in a grip.
  8. Archaic spelling of grippe: Influenza, flu.
    She has the grip.
    • 1911, Theodore Dreiser, Jennie Gerhardt, Chapter XXXII:
      It so happened that, during a stretch of inclement weather in the fall, Lester was seized with a mild form of grip. When he felt the first symptoms he thought that his indisposition would be a matter of short duration, and tried to overcome it by taking a hot bath and a liberal dose of quinine. But the infection was stronger than he counted on; by morning he was flat on his back, with a severe fever and a splitting headache.
  9. (archaic) A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
    • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 35:
      'I put my grips against the communicating door last night'.
  10. An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
  11. Assistance; help or encouragement. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
    He gave me a grip.
  12. A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
    You're a real grip.
  13. (slang) As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
    I need to get a grip of nails for my project.
  14. (figurative) A tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
    • 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
      Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.
    in the grip of a blackmailer
  15. A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
See also
Related terms
Translations
grip — see grasp
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Etymology 3

From Middle English grip, grippe, gryppe (“a ditch, drain”), from Old English grēp (“a furrow, burrow”) and grēpe (“a furrow, ditch, drain”), from Proto-Germanic *grōpiz (“a furrow, groove”). Cognate with Middle Dutch grippe, gruppe (“ditch, drain”), greppe, German Low German Gruppe (“ditch, drain”). Related also to Old English grōp (“a ditch, drain”). More at groop.

Alternative forms

Noun

grip (plural grips)

  1. (dialectal) A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
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Derived terms

Etymology 4

From Middle English gripe, from Old French gripe, from Latin grypus, gryphus.

Noun

grip (plural grips)

  1. (obsolete) The griffin.

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

Probably a modern loanword, from German Grippe.

Noun

grip m

  1. flu, influenza

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French grippe, from Frankish *grīpan (“to seize”), from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną.

Pronunciation

Noun

grip f (plural grips)

  1. flu (influenza)

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English grip.

Pronunciation

Noun

grip m (plural grippen, diminutive gripje n)

  1. hold (to ensure control)

Related terms

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French grippe (“influenza”).

Noun

grip

  1. influenza, flu

Icelandic

Noun

Template:is-noun form

  1. inflection of gripur:
    1. indefinite accusative singular
    2. indefinite dative singular

Ladino

Etymology

Borrowed from French grippe (“influenza”).

Noun

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  1. (medicine) influenza, flu

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French gripe.

Noun

grip

  1. Alternative form of gripe (“griffin”)

Etymology 2

From Old English grēp.

Noun

grip

  1. Alternative form of grippe

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

grip

  1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of gripe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

grip

  1. (deprecated template usage) present tense of gripa
  2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of gripa

Romansch

Noun

grip m (plural grips)

  1. rock

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

grip c

  1. griffin


Declension of grip 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative grip gripen gripar griparna
Genitive grips gripens gripars griparnas

Verb

grip

  1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of gripa.

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French grippe.

Noun

grip (definite accusative gripi, plural gripler)

  1. (pathology) flu, influenza, grippe

Yola

Noun

grip

  1. stitch

References

  • J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)
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