Grip Definition
To give a grip to.
- to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
- to struggle or try to cope (with)
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Grip
Origin of Grip
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From Middle English grip, grippe, gryppe (“a ditch, drain”), from Old English grēp (“a furrow, burrow”) and Old English 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.
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From Old English grippan, from a Proto-Germanic *gripjaną (compare Old High German gripfen); cf. the related Old English grīpan, whence English gripe. See also grope.
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An amalgam of Old English gripe (“grasp, hold”) (cognate with German Griff) and Old English gripa (“handful”) (cognate with Swedish grepp).
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Middle English from Old English gripe grasp gripa handful
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Latin grypus, gryphus.
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