scissors grip

Questions about scissors grip

What is another word for scissors grip?

It depends which scissors grip you mean. In the sense “a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze”, the synonyms are scissors, scissors hold, scissor hold, scissor grip. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of scissors grip?

WordNet records no antonym for scissors grip. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for scissors grip come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of scissors grip

• Full entry for scissors gripAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for scissors gripWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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