英和和英

名詞

squirrel grip (複数形 squirrel grips)

1. (Australia, sports, colloquial, often figuratively) A grip on another player's testicles; an illegal rugby tackle involving such a grip.
   • 2006, Dan Crowley, Larry Writer, Undercover Prop: The Game They Play in Heaven and a Police Career from Hell, page 75,

     Their breakaway, Philippe Chamayou, had been grabbing our lineout jumpers in the squirrel grip all match long, while ensuring we couldn't return service by wearing a cricket protector For the uneducated a squirrel grip is where an opponent grabs a player by the testicles, the most vile act in the game after eye gouging.

   • 2003, Peter Temple, Bad Debts, page 50,

     'Wootton tells me you put the squirrel grip on one of his commissioners, Jack,' Harry said.

   • 2007, Gideon Haigh, The Green & Golden Age: Writings on Australian Cricket Today, page 56,

     […] Ponting seems to have traded Waugh's ‘mental disintegration’ for what might be called the ‘psychological squirrel grip’. Of England, he gloats: ‘Mentally, we've got them by the balls.’

   • 2010, John Elias, Josh Massoud, Sin Bin: The Untold Story of a True Footy Bad Boy, page 82,

     Anything went in that competition - fingers ripping your nostrils, being spat at. The only thing I didn't encounter was a squirrel grip.