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squirrel grip

squirrel grip noun: a grip on another player's testicles; an illegal rugby tackle involving such a grip.

Noun

squirrel grip (plural squirrel grips)

  1. (Australia, colloquial, figuratively, often) A grip on another player's testicles; an illegal rugby tackle involving such a grip.
    • Their breakaway, Philippe Chamayou, had been grabbing our lineout jumpers in the squirrel grip all match long, while ensuring we couldn't return service by wearing a cricket protector For the uneducated a squirrel grip is where an opponent grabs a player by the testicles, the most vile act in the...2006, Dan Crowley, Larry Writer, Undercover Prop: The Game They Play in Heaven and a Police Career from Hell, page 75
    • 'Wootton tells me you put the squirrel grip on one of his commissioners, Jack,' Harry said.2003, Peter Temple, Bad Debts, page 50

Examples of squirrel grip in a sentence

  • […] Ponting seems to have traded Waugh's ‘mental disintegration’ for what might be called the ‘psychological squirrel grip’.2007, Gideon Haigh, The Green & Golden Age: Writings on Australian Cricket Today, page 56:
  • The only thing I didn't encounter was a squirrel grip.2010, John Elias, Josh Massoud, Sin Bin: The Untold Story of a True Footy Bad Boy, page 82:

Forms of squirrel grip

pluralsquirrel grips

Origin of squirrel grip

A pun on two senses of nuts: the food hoarded by a squirrel, and testicles.

Questions about squirrel grip

What does squirrel grip mean?
Squirrel grip means a grip on another player's testicles; an illegal rugby tackle involving such a grip.
How do you use squirrel grip in a sentence?
[…] Ponting seems to have traded Waugh's ‘mental disintegration’ for what might be called the ‘psychological squirrel grip’.
What part of speech is squirrel grip?
Squirrel grip is a noun.
What is the plural of squirrel grip?
The plural of squirrel grip is squirrel grips.

Words near squirrel grip in the dictionary

  1. squirrel frogs
  2. squirrel glider
  3. squirrel gliders
  4. squirrel grass
  5. squirrel grasses
  6. squirrel grip
  7. squirrel grips
  8. squirrel hake
  9. squirrel hakes
  10. squirrel king
  11. squirrel kings

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