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grip up

grip up verb: to accost, clutch, grapple or roughly handle (someone or something).

Verb

grip up (third-person singular simple present grips up, present participle gripping up, simple past and past participle gripped up)

  1. (slang) To accost, clutch, grapple or roughly handle (someone or something).

Forms of grip up

third-person singular presentgrips up
present participlegripping up
past participlegripped up
pastgripped up

Questions about grip up

What does grip up mean?
Grip up means to accost, clutch, grapple or roughly handle (someone or something).
What part of speech is grip up?
Grip up is a verb.
What is the past tense of grip up?
The past tense of grip up is gripped up.

Words near grip up in the dictionary

  1. grip off
  2. grip oneself with both hands
  3. grip panel
  4. grip tape
  5. grip tapes
  6. grip up
  7. grip wax
  8. grip waxes
  9. grip-and-grin
  10. grip-and-grins
  11. grip-car

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