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I wanted to make sure I was using the term "grip" right in a sentence, but all I remembered was an off-hand comment from Mystery Science Theatre 3000. So I came here, and sure enough: A grip is someone who handles stuff on set. I remember looking for the film meaning of this word a few times before to no avail, so I am very pleasantly surprised to see such a thorough treatment!

Related terms: come to grips
It would improve the entry to add what meaning of grip(s) is used in come to grips --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:52, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

RFV discussion: October–November 2022
Senses:
 * To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense.
 * To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.
 * To trench; to drain.

Tagged by JudgeDeadd on 1 April (“Added "verify" requests to some dubious English senses; Added two new definitions, more readily found in dictionaries”), not listed. J3133 (talk) 07:01, 5 October 2022 (UTC)


 * The "trench, drain" sense belongs to Etymology 3. OED gives it as "dialectal" and includes two Modern English uses.
 * The other two senses were added by TMattausch way back in 2007. This was one of the user's only two contributions, the other being an earlier version of the gripless entry (see its RFV). I suspect a hoax: the usex for the second impugned sense suggests the collocation let’s grip, but turns up nothing useful. Also, Urban Dictionary provides no support. This, that and the other (talk) 11:39, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

RFV-failed the two slangy senses. I don't think there is any particular doubt that the third one exists, but it has not yet been cited. This, that and the other (talk) 01:15, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

RFV discussion: October 2022–February 2023
Rfv-sense: griffin. OED appears to lemmatise this obsolete word at, with a number of ModE cites for the alt form. No modern evidence is provided for a spelling grip. This, that and the other (talk) 08:03, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

RFV Failed, as stated above this entry is already lemmatized at. Ioaxxere (talk) 19:21, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

RFV
Etymology 3 still has an rfsense tag. Did it fail? Ioaxxere (talk) 07:07, 24 February 2023 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure why you pinged me? I don't think I have edited this entry or its talk page... Regardless, the template was added to the "to trench" sense by @JudgeDeadd last April. Edit: Yeah, see the discussion above for details on the RFV of that sense. I've removed the tag per This, that and the other's closure. &mdash;The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 07:23, 24 February 2023 (UTC)