grip

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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: grĭp, IPA^(key): /ɡɹɪp/
• Rhymes: -ɪp

Etymology 1

Verb from Middle English grippen, from Old English grippan, from a Proto-Germanic *gripjaną (compare Old High German gripfen); compare the related Old English grīpan, whence English gripe. See also grope, and the related Proto-Germanic *grīpaną.

Noun from Middle English grippe, gripe, an amalgam of Old English gripe (“grasp, hold”) (cognate with German Griff) and Old English gripa (“handful”) (cognate with Swedish grepp).

Verb

grip (third-person singular simple present grips, present participle gripping, simple past and past participle gripped)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To take hold (of), particularly with the hand.
2. (transitive) To figuratively take hold of or grasp.

3. (transitive) Of an emotion or situation: to have a strong effect upon.
4. (transitive) To firmly hold the attention of.

Synonyms

• (take hold of): clasp, grasp; See also Thesaurus:grasp

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

grip (countable and uncountable, plural grips)

2. A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.

3. (uncountable) Ability to resist slippage when pressed in contact with another object or surface.

5. A place to grip; a handle; the portion of a handle that the hand occupies.

   Near-synonym: handgrip

6. A device, or a portion of one, that grasps or holds fast to something.
   2. An apparatus attached to a car (e.g., cable car, funicular car, mine car) for clutching a traction cable.
8. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (figurative) Assistance; help; encouragement.

10. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (figurative) Someone who is helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring.

12. (figurative) Control, power, or mastery over someone or something; a tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
13. (figurative) Mental grasp.

14. A medium-sized bag or holdall for one's belongings, made of soft leather, canvas etc., and carried in the hand by two handles, one either side of the opening.
16. (graphical user interface) A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved by dragging with a mouse or finger.
18. (film or television production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.

    Hyponym: key grip

    Coordinate terms: gaffer, gofer

20. (slang) As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.

22. (chiefly Southern California slang) A lot of something.

24. (chiefly Southern California slang) A long time.

26. Archaic spelling of grippe (“influenza”).
28. (archaic except rail transport) A small travelling-bag or gripsack.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• (a lot of) hella, hecka

Etymology 2

From Middle English grip, grippe, gryppe (“a ditch, drain”), from Old English grēp (“a furrow, burrow”) and grēpe (“a furrow, ditch, drain”), from Proto-Germanic *grōpiz (“a furrow, groove”). Cognate with Middle Dutch grippe, gruppe (“ditch, drain”), greppe, German Low German Gruppe (“ditch, drain”). Related also to Old English grōp (“a ditch, drain”). More at groop.

Alternative forms

• gripe

Noun

grip (plural grips)

1. (dialectal) A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
3. A channel cut through a grass verge, especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway.

Derived terms

• gripple

Verb

grip (third-person singular simple present grips, present participle gripping, simple past and past participle gripped)

1. (dialectal) To trench; to drain.

Anagrams

• IGRP, PIRG, prig

Albanian

Etymology

Probably a modern loanword, from German Grippe.

Noun

grip m

1. flu, influenza

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French grippe, from Frankish *grīpan (“to seize”), from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡɾip]

Noun

grip f (plural grips)

1. flu (influenza)

Further reading

• “grip” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “grip”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “grip” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “grip” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English grip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣrɪp/

Noun

grip m (plural grippen, diminutive gripje n)

1. hold (to ensure control)

Related terms

• greep
• griep
• grijpen
• begrip

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French grippe (“influenza”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɣip/

Noun

grip

1. influenza, flu

Icelandic

Noun

grip

1. inflection of gripur:
   1. indefinite accusative singular
   2. indefinite dative singular

Ladino

Alternative forms

• gripa

Etymology

Borrowed from French grippe (“influenza”).

Noun

grip f

1. (medicine) influenza, flu

References

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

grip

1. Alternative form of gripe (“griffin”)

Etymology 2

Noun

grip

1. Alternative form of grippe

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• gripe (Mooring)

Etymology

From Old Frisian grīpa, from Proto-West Germanic *grīpan, from Proto-Germanic *grīpaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡrɪp]

Verb

grip

1. (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt) to grab, take, seize

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

grip

1. imperative of gripe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

grip

1. inflection of gripa:
   1. present
   2. imperative

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡriːp/

Verb

grīp

1. singular imperative of grīpan

Romansch

Noun

grip m (plural grips)

1. rock

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• grȉpa (Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro)

Noun

grȉp m (Cyrillic spelling гри̏п)

1. (Serbia) flu, influenza

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡriːp/
• Rhymes: -iːp

Noun

grip c

1. a griffin (mythological beast)

2. (in some compounds) a thing, a valuable

Declension

Derived terms

Verb

grip

1. imperative of gripa

References

• grip in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• grip in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• grip in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French grippe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɾip/

Noun

grip (definite accusative gripi, plural gripler)

1. (pathology) flu, influenza, grippe

Descendants

• → Laz: გრიფი (gripi)

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English gripe (“grip”, rarely "sharp pain"), from Old English gripe, from Proto-West Germanic *gripi, from Proto-Germanic *gripiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɪp/

Noun

grip (plural gripès)

1. A twinge; a sharp pain.

References