Meaning of death grip | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An extremely tight grip.
2. The grip of something dead or dying.
3. A grip that kills.
4. A tight grip on the penis during masturbation.
   slang
5. A perilous situation or stalemate where failure or death is imminent.

Examples

“The walker held with a death grip to his stick⟳ lest he drop it down the hill.”

“Cunningham then declared […] that he was at Mr. Lyneall's, and saw⟳ Robinson snap⟳ his pistol, which did not go off; that he heard a voice from some one, saying fire! and also heard a shot, but did not know⟳ who fired; that Condron, the approver, afterwards told him he had no pistol, as he dropped it when he fired; that Condron could not help⟳ firing, as the gentleman who struggled with him held a death grip of the pistol he fired.”

“The mysterious bark, though rent⟳ and shattered, still held on with a death-grip to the bridge, and the starting and splinting timbers of the latter seemed to shrink⟳ and shriek with fear and agony.”

“You might define⟳ obstinacy as holding on to small ideas or unworthy aims with a death-grip.”

“Robert with a death grip on an English saddle.”

“Until that night, the dynasty of the Dark Earth had held the nation in a death grip of control⟳.”

“I gently tore the bloodied piece of paper out from her death grip.”

“The death grip of the Umbrella Ant soldiers is so tenacious that the natives often use⟳ them to suture wounds.”

“The wolf held the chicken in a death grip until it stopped moving.”

“At the outset Mahmoud commanded Mehemet to withdraw⟳ his forces and to lay⟳ his grievances before his Sultan. He might as well have⟳ ordered the lion to loose his death-grip on the roe.”

““A thousand-hued beast pulled and dragged at my limbs, striving to suck⟳ me down to the depths with him. He held me close⟳ in a death grip.””

“Astronomers have⟳ discovered a double-star system in which the two members of the pair are just 80,000 miles apart — one-third the distance between Earth and the moon — and the smaller, locked into a “death grip,” zooms around the larger at the surprising rate of once every 11 minutes.”

“The armies came together in a death grip at the bottom of the valley.”

“[O]ne Confederate in the death grip had seized the sharp edge of a huge rock, and with feet held fast in a cleft of the rock above, hung head downwards between the two.”

“They act as skirmishers before the actual battle: and while the hoplites are in the real death-grip they harass the foe as they can, and guard the camp.”

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