grippy
1 Americanadjective
adjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of grippy1
Origin of grippy2
Example Sentences
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But as temperatures fall below about 50 degrees F, they get harder, noisier and less grippy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
“Your hands are supposed to slip out. Marshawn had sort of grippy gloves, and they would stick to my cast. That was the most painful thing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
Ioan fell on a bend that had been dry and grippy the day before.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2025
On the floor, she used four varieties of marble to create a custom mosaic that provides a more grippy surface.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2024
Tally grabbed it and pulled, her grippy shoes squeaking on the walls of the elevator shaft like a herd of panicked mice.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
But a safety car came out and Ferrari brought Sainz into the pits for fresher, grippier soft tires.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2022
The matte plastic has a nice feel to it, and there are vertical lines engraved across the back to make it grippier.
From The Verge ● Dec. 13, 2021
First, despite being on the grippier racing line, Bottas' start was worse than Hamilton's.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2021
On average, he found the surviving anoles seemed to have much bigger, grippier toe pads than the population had averaged before, as if those with less sticky feet had been carried away by the storms.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2020
We wish its top surface was grippier, but other than that, we really like it.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2018
“When Nordic skiing is frozen boilerplate, that makes for great fat biking — the fastest, grippiest conditions,” Acheson said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
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