the person in charge of moving and setting up camera tracks and scenery in a film or television studio
See also grip1 (sense 11)
key grip in American English
noun
Films
the chief stagehand on a movie set
Word origin
[1975–80]This word is first recorded in the period 1975–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: family therapy, gravitational lens, hybridoma, methanogen, retrovirus