Meaning of squirrel grip | Babel Free

Definitions

A grip on another player's testicles; an illegal rugby tackle involving such a grip.

Australia, colloquial, figuratively, often

Examples

“Their breakaway, Philippe Chamayou, had been grabbing our lineout jumpers in the squirrel grip all match long, while ensuring we couldn't return service by wearing a cricket protector For the uneducated a squirrel grip is where an opponent grabs a player by the testicles, the most vile act in the game after eye gouging.”

“'Wootton tells me you put the squirrel grip on one of his commissioners, Jack,' Harry said.”

“[…] Ponting seems to have traded Waugh's ‘mental disintegration’ for what might be called the ‘psychological squirrel grip’. Of England, he gloats: ‘Mentally, we've got them by the balls.’”

“Anything went in that competition - fingers ripping your nostrils, being spat at. The only thing I didn't encounter was a squirrel grip.”

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