English
Adjective
grippy (comparative grippier, superlative grippiest)
- Tending to grip well.
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2007 August 31, Melena Ryzik, “Portable Theater (Just Go With the Flow)”, in New York Times:- Naturally, the men play the set, drumming on the metal scaffolding as they climb around it wearing special grippy gloves.
Etymology 2
grippe + -y
Adjective
grippy (not comparable)
- Afflicted with, or relating to, grippe, or influenza.
- 1916, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record
- Let me state again that we must never make light of the grippy infections.