Adjective modifier

• hot: He brought also a bourgeois guard of honor, a fine troop, which melted away in battle like butter on a hot gridiron.

Modifies a noun

• pattern: The garden has changed from the gridiron pattern of straight walks and beds shown in a plan of 1746.

• career: Be seen exactly the latter on college gridiron career.

• game: During a typical gridiron game players may get breaks, but cheerleaders go flat out for three and a half hours in all weathers.

• football: He was a wrestler and gridiron football quarterback at high school, and enrolled at Yale to study medicine before transferring to art.

• star: For every footballer behaving badly over here, there is a basketball or gridiron star acting up over there.