misgrips

Verb

misgrip (third-person singular simple present misgrips, present participle misgripping, simple past and past participle misgripped)

1. To grip improperly.
   • It was a revelation of sorts, those, of course, that could be read, for there were a few specimens of the hook-and-butt-joint variety which looked as though they'd been written with a spitsticker misgripped between two non-opposable toes.1981, Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat, page 90

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