Definition of "gripping" []

• Catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating. (adjective)
• Present participle of grip. (verb)

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• "And now for his description of reading "No Country for Old Men," He used the term "gripping," 4 times."
• ""Child 44 is a remarkable debut novel - inventive, edgy and relentlessly gripping from the first page to the last.""
• "Drawing liberally on firsthand accounts, Swanson covers these dramatic parallel journeys day by day, shifting from one to the other in gripping counterpoint."