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n. - An African amulet.

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Usage examples (4)
  • Locking up - both the gri-gri and cinch did just fine.
  • Same as above, though for slingshot toproping with the gri-gri, the palm-down is fine, too.
  • She called him gri-gri from the first, but they knew only long afterward that "gri-gri" meant "gray-gray," to signify that she called him after his grizzled hairs.
  • Nor do they employ skilled physicians to any considerable extent, especially in the early stages of their illness, for, inheriting from their African ancestry a belief in the...
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