Meaning

1 senses
  1. (historical)A man employed to manipulate the grip of a cable car (the streetcar), therefore enabling it to start and stop.

Origin

From grip + -man.

From grip + -man.

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Forms

plural: gripmen
Singulargripman
Pluralgripmen

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See also

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