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gripsack U.S. colloq.|ˈgrɪpsæk|
[f. grip v.1 + sack.]
A traveller's handbag.
1877R. J. Burdette Rise & Fall of Mustache 59 If I was going to Europe, I would just rush into the house, put on a clean shirt, grab up my gripsack, and fly. 1883Pall Mall G. 11 Dec. 2/2 The word ‘grip-sack’ has long been in use in America as a slang term for hand-satchel. 1889‘Mark Twain’ Yankee at Crt. K. Arth. xxiii. 255 Take your gripsack and get along. 189119th Cent. Oct. 588 They pack their grip-sacks and go off to Europe. 1909W. J. Locke Septimus xiv. 213 Gives instant relief for blistered feet. Every mountaineer should carry it in his gripsack. 1911Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 29 Apr. 3/1 This most refreshing, invigorating and purifying of Fruit Salts should be in..the gripsack of every tourist. 1926Chesterton Incredulity of Father Brown i. 4 His grip-sack held in a steely grip. 1949E. Pound Pisan Cantos lxxvii. 49 Preceded by a crash, i.e. by a Huge gripsack or satchel. |