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"gripping pad"

Background: As a Fleet Risk-Control Manager in a major city, our drivers are taught to reduce their "driver reaction distance" (gas to brake time) by entering into a "preliminary pad grip," (brake pad to rotor with minor, unnoticeable contact); this is also known as "gripping pad."
Example One:

Driver: "It's not my fault I hit that truck that shot out of the mouth of that blind alley."

Fleet Safety Director: "Yea, but you should have been "gripping pad" going through there..."

Example Two:

Driver: "Don't blame me that I knocked that person down; she came out of nowhere."

Fleet Safety Director: "You should have been "gripping pad" going through there with all the people present!"

Fleet Safety Director:
by Ricky Razzle February 24, 2009
mugGet the "gripping pad"mug.

Gay Grips

An insulting name for a person's sideburns. Derives from a person sodomising another from behind and the sodomiser holding on to the sideburns like handles, or grips. See also Buggerers Grips, Sodomisers Straps.
Neil's sideburns are like huge gay grips.
by Twatty McGee July 8, 2010
mugGet the Gay Gripsmug.

grip that grain

to pay attention to the steering wheel and start driving
driver (turning around): hey, where do youi guys wanna eat tonight?
passanger: wtf, grip that grain and pay attention to the road, you gonna get us killed
by roman holiday February 19, 2009
mugGet the grip that grainmug.

up in a grip

To have one's balls in a vice-grip. To beshackled by an unpleasant task preventing fun times that were previously planned.
I'm all up in a grip here. My boss just gave me the Lumberg. Gotta come in on Saturday. No Vegas for me.
by evil adam June 10, 2009
mugGet the up in a gripmug.

jew grip

N. A trait a person possesse where they are tight with money. Not letting money go easily, being extremely cheap.
Not letting money escape.
Dan has had the jew grip lately he doesn't even want to spend 300 dollars to fix his car, so i have to always give him a ride.
by A X March 20, 2008
mugGet the jew gripmug.

Grip up

a)To have been caught by an authority figure.
b) To be forcibly ejected.
c) When one has come off second best in a physical confrontation.
a) I tried to cheat on that exam but the teacher gave me a proper grip up!
b) I was behaving inappropriately in that nightclub and I was gripped up by the bouncers, hence my standing here.
c) I called him an imbecile and took a swing but being much weaker, I got grip up and now need medical attention.
by Bionic Man October 8, 2008
mugGet the Grip upmug.

mechanics grip

Holding a deck of cards in the palm of your hand with your thumb resting along one side of the deck, your forefinger on the top edge of the deck, and the rest of your fingers along the other side of the deck from your thumb. Often used to describe an aggressive or suspicious handle on an object.
I was suspicious of Nigel as with his experience, he's probably trying something with his mechanics grip.
by Erik Pederson July 6, 2006
mugGet the mechanics gripmug.

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