handgrip

1. 1.

   the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it

   “he grabbed the hammer by the handle”

   “it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip”

   Synonymshandlegriphold

   Broaderappendage

   Narrowerax handlebroomstickcrophafthilthoe handleknobmop handlepanhandlepommel

   Part ofedge toolhand toolumbrellabaggage

   Partsshank

Other forms of handgrip

plural

handgrips·

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 handgrip

What does handgrip mean?

handgrip means "the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it".

How many syllables are in handgrip?

handgrip has 2 syllables and divides as hand-grip under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for handgrip?

Close synonyms include handle, grip, hold. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is handgrip a common word?

handgrip is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.