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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.
Grippy Sock Jail by MossyMoss January 25, 2021
Word of the Day on November 27, 2025
gripson
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.
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.
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.
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
grippy socks by nqlqni January 19, 2021
grippers
grippers by Poop cluster March 28, 2022
Grippy sock vacation
Grippy sock vacation by sadboihours2003 September 24, 2021
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