deathgrip
English
Noun
deathgrip (plural deathgrips)
- Alternative form of death grip
- 1987, Stephen King, It: 2, →ISBN, page 6:
- In those interminable moments while he was groping for the switch with his right hand (his left arm curled around the doorjamb in a deathgrip), that cellar smell seemed to intensify until it filled the world.
- 1995, Maggie McAuliffe Bedrosian, Life Is More Than Your To-Do List, →ISBN:
- She had on the business uniform of charcoal grey suit, white shirt, tie, conservative black pumps. Her dark hair was styled with severe simplicity. Her right hand had a deathgrip on her briefcase.
- 2002, Tim Waggoner, All Too Surreal, →ISBN, page 62:
- Delia, four years old, holds onto Maryellen's feet with a deathgrip, while her brother, Jeffrey, two years older and considerably bigger and stronger, pulls on the doll's head.
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Anagrams
- graphited, heptagrid