Associations to the word «Grizzlies»

Wiktionary

GRIZZLY, adjective. Grey-haired, greyish.
GRIZZLY, adjective. Misspelling of grisly. [Listed by Merriam-Webster Unabridged as a legitimate variant spelling.]
GRIZZLY, noun. A grizzly bear.
GRIZZLY, noun. (US) (dialect) In hydraulic mining, a grating used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices.
GRIZZLY BEAR, noun. A large North American subspecies, Ursus arctos horribilis, of the brown bear.
GRIZZLY BEARS, noun. Plural of grizzly bear

Dictionary definition

GRIZZLY, noun. Powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America.
GRIZZLY, adjective. Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats