Usually means: Operator of a cable car.
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▸ noun:  (chiefly historical) A man employed to manipulate the grip of a cable car (the streetcar), therefore enabling it to start and stop.

Similar:
grip, cableman, grasper, cable man, liftman, gearman, crankman, ground man, leverman, gangwayman, more...

Opposite:
ungripman, release man, let go man

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Similar:
grip, cableman, grasper, cable man, liftman, gearman, crankman, ground man, leverman, gangwayman, more...

Opposite:
ungripman, release man, let go man



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