Having good grip or traction; sticky, adhesive, or providing a firm hold; also informal for resembling influenza symptoms.
From 'grip' plus informal suffix '-y' (Old English origin for making adjectives). A modern colloquial formation that also secondarily describes flu-like symptoms.
Grippy is wonderfully dual-meaning in modern English—it describes both rock-climbing shoe soles AND the sticky, achy feeling of coming down with the flu, making it an accidental perfect descriptor of two completely unrelated grip experiences!
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