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handygrips

handygrips is the alternative form of handygripes.

Meaning of handygripes

Noun

handygripes pl (plural only)

  1. (obsolete, plural, plural-only) Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; close quarters in fighting.
    • For now the mastives, charging home, / To blows and handygripes were come:c. 1660–1680, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part I, canto III
    Synonyms:
    grappling, wrestling

Questions about handygrips

What is handygrips the alternative form of?
Handygrips is the alternative form of handygripes.

Words near handygrips in the dictionary

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  2. handycam
  3. handycams
  4. handycuffs
  5. handygripes
  6. handygrips
  7. handyish
  8. handyman
  9. handyman special
  10. handyman specials
  11. handyman's special

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