deathgrip

English

Noun

deathgrip (plural deathgrips)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• graphited, heptagrid