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gripsacks

gripsacks is the plural of gripsack.

Meaning of gripsack

Noun

gripsack (plural gripsacks)

  1. (colloquial, dated) A traveller's bag.
    • As for Bondell's gripsack, it was inconceivable that forty pounds could weigh so much. It pressed him down like a mountain, and he looked back with unbelief to the year before, when he had climbed that same pass with a hundred and fifty pounds on his back. If those loads had weighed a hundred and...1910, Jack London, “Trust”, in Lost Face

Questions about gripsacks

What is gripsacks the plural of?
Gripsacks is the plural of gripsack.

Words near gripsacks in the dictionary

  1. grippy tapes
  2. grips
  3. grips grain
  4. grips off
  5. gripsack
  6. gripsacks
  7. gripsome
  8. gript
  9. griptape
  10. gription
  11. gripy

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