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grippy

grippy adjective: having a tight grip, or tending to grip well.

Adjective (1)

grippy (comparative grippier, superlative grippiest)

  1. Having a tight grip, or tending to grip well.
    • Naturally, the men play the set, drumming on the metal scaffolding as they climb around it wearing special grippy gloves.2007 August 31, Melena Ryzik, “Portable Theater (Just Go With the Flow)”, in New York Times
  2. (Scotland) Tight-fisted, greedy, stingy.
  3. (informal) Gripping; compelling.
    • The book is a quick, grippy summer read.

Adjective (2)

grippy (not comparable)

  1. Afflicted with, or relating to, grippe, or influenza.
    • Let me state again that we must never make light of the grippy infections.1916, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record

Forms of grippy

comparativegrippier
superlativegrippiest

Origin of grippy

From grip + -y.

From grippe + -y.

Words formed from grippy

Phrases with grippy

2 more phrasesFewer phrases

Questions about grippy

What does grippy mean?
Grippy means having a tight grip, or tending to grip well.
What part of speech is grippy?
Grippy is an adjective.

Words near grippy in the dictionary

  1. grippleness
  2. gripples
  3. grippling
  4. Grippo
  5. Grippos
  6. grippy
  7. grippy sock
  8. grippy sock hotel
  9. grippy sock hotels
  10. grippy sock jail
  11. grippy sock jails

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