gripsack

1. 1.

   a small suitcase

   Broaderbag

Other forms of gripsack

plural

gripsacks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gripsack

What does gripsack mean?

gripsack means "a small suitcase".

How many syllables are in gripsack?

gripsack has 2 syllables: grip-sack. The stress falls on "grip".

Is gripsack a common word?

gripsack is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.