grippy

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adjective

Having a tight grip, or tending to grip well.

“The book is a quick, grippy summer read.”

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Meanings

grippy1

adjectivegrippy (comparative grippier, superlative grippiest)

comparative grippier · superlative grippiest

  1. Having a tight grip, or tending to grip well.

    Naturally, the men play the set, drumming on the metal scaffolding as they climb around it wearing special grippy gloves.

    2007 August 31, Melena Ryzik, “Portable Theater (Just Go With the Flow)”, in New York Times
  2. ScotlandTight-fisted, greedy, stingy.
  3. informalGripping; compelling.

    The book is a quick, grippy summer read.

grippy2

adjectivegrippy (not comparable)
  1. not comparableAfflicted with, or relating to, grippe, or influenza.

    Let me state again that we must never make light of the grippy infections.

    1916, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record

Origin

grippy · adjective

From grip + -y.

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grippy · adjective

From grippe + -y.

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Translations

Czech přilnavý, neklouzavý
  • přilnavýhaving a tight grip, or tending to grip well
  • neklouzavýhaving a tight grip, or tending to grip well
  • svíravýhaving a tight grip, or tending to grip well
Spanish tener buen agarre, tener bastante adherencia
  • tener buen agarrehaving a tight grip, or tending to grip well
  • tener bastante adherenciahaving a tight grip, or tending to grip well
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APA

grippy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grippy

MLA

“grippy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grippy. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “grippy,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grippy.

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