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Grippy Sock Jail

A common online name for a mental hospitals, often due to the fact that you get socks with grips on the bottoms instead of shoes.
“I had to go to grippy sock jail after I told my therapist about my mental stats.”
Grippy Sock Jail by MossyMoss January 25, 2021
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When you're so addicted to hard drugs like heroin or fentanyl that you've gone past the point of no return, the drugs can be said to have gripped your brain. In turn, you would call this person a gripson. When they are extremely high and incapacitated, you would refer to them as being gripsoned.
We tried to get everyone ready to go canoeing on the river, but Jordan was gripsoned out of his mind sitting in a camping chair. We had to put sunglasses on him to make it less noticeable and then go without him. What a gripson.
gripson by OnceGreat August 14, 2021

grippy sock vacation 

A stay in the mental hospital. Name taken from the grippy socks given to (mostly involuntary) patients. Patients are not allowed shoes with laces due to suicide risk so grippy socks like those used at trampoline parks are issued to patients for footwear.
See: "psych ward socks"

Source: Was in mental hospital in 2019 and know other patients from other institutions

Phrase originally used within mental hospital circles and later spread on TikTok and other social media.
"If the professor gives us another fucking project, I'm going to need a grippy sock vacation!"
grippy sock vacation by MXRed February 20, 2022

grippy socks 

grippy socks is kind of a code word for mental health facility because when your in one they give you grippy socks instead of shoes
person A: it wasnt bad when i had grippy socks
person B: yea i played a lot of uno
grippy socks by nqlqni January 19, 2021

grippers 

feet

it just means feet
girl: PUT EM SOGGY ASS GRIPPERS AWAY NASTY ASS

Boy: *cries*
grippers by Poop cluster March 28, 2022

Grippy sock vacation 

When one goes to a mental hospital for a while.
I’m going on a grippy sock vacation, see you in a few days!