Any clamp, grabber, gripper, suction cup, mechanical claw, or other contraption whose job is to grab onto something and prevent it from making a break for it or squirting out of position.
A person who clings hard in denial of a con after they’ve been exposed.
Months after Hilaria Baldwin was exposed for her "decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person," she still insists she is Spanish because she's culturally fluid. She is a gripter.