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nounhandygripes pl (plural only)
alternative handy gripes · alternative handy-gripes · alternative handygrips
- obsoletepluralplural onlySeizure by, or grasp of, the hand; close quarters in fighting.
For now the mastives, charging home, / To blows and handygripes were come:
c. 1660–1680, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part I, canto III
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