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Death grip
noun, slang
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Noun
- 1 An extremely tight grip.
"The walker held with a death grip to his stick lest he drop it down the hill."
- 2 An extremely tight grip.; The grip of something dead or dying.
"I gently tore the bloodied piece of paper out from her death grip."
- 3 An extremely tight grip.; A grip that kills.
"The wolf held the chicken in a death grip until it stopped moving."
- 4 An extremely tight grip.; A tight grip on the penis during masturbation. slang
- 5 A perilous situation or stalemate where failure or death is imminent.
"The armies came together in a death grip at the bottom of the valley."
Etymology
The masturbation sense was coined by American sex advice columnist and gay rights campaigner Dan Savage in 2003.
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