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gripmen

gripmen is the plural of gripman.

Meaning of gripman

Noun

gripman (plural gripmen)

  1. (historical) A man employed to manipulate the grip of a cable car (the streetcar), therefore enabling it to start and stop.

Questions about gripmen

What is gripmen the plural of?
Gripmen is the plural of gripman.

Words near gripmen in the dictionary

  1. gripings
  2. griple
  3. gripless
  4. griplessness
  5. gripman
  6. gripmen
  7. gripment
  8. gripopterygid
  9. gripopterygids
  10. grippable
  11. grippal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gripmen (page history and authors); gripman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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