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To rip someone off and then add insult to injury by charging them money or following with an egregious insult, a la Cook's Source magazine editor Judith Griggs when she plagiarized an article written by Monica Gaudio. When Gaudio contacted Griggs to straighten things out and ask that Judith make a small contribution to a journalism school to make things right, Griggs told her that her article wasn't very good in the first place and that if anything, Gaudio should be paying HER for the editing work she did on her piece.
It was bad enough when he mugged me and stole my purse, but did he have to Griggs me by calling me fat and suing me for fighting back?
1. One who co-opts online content in the belief that any online content is public domain, free for the taking. 2. One who collects advertising revenue or litigates based on claims that another's work is their own. 3. An individual who plagiarizes wholesale, and derides original content as worthless and/or inferior. 4. One who doesn't understand copyright or licensing, and engages in provocative speech and gestures to defend their position.
Once upon a time, an ant worked had all summer storing food. Then one day a Griggs came along, claimed the food was all theirs, and lived all winter on it.
Function: verb Inflected Form(s): griggs'd Pronunciation: gr\ i \gz 1. To use content on the web without permission, then request payment from original author for rewrites and editing. 2. To remain ignorant of plagiarism, ethics, copyright, and asshat behavior. Etymology: From Cook's Source editor Judith Griggs' use of Monica's article from GodeCookery without attribution or permission, and from Griggs' subsequent rejection and ridicule of Monica's request for compensation.
"Why'd you get an F on that essay?" "I griggs'd the professor's doctoral thesis from her website, and I even cleaned it up for her and told her she should give me an A, but she failed me anyway." Alternate usage: "For tomorrow's deadline, I'm going to griggs some article from LiveJournal but edit it to remove the humor and interestingness.
To use copyright-protected content a la Cooks source editor Judith Griggs, and then insist that the copyright holder should be paying YOU for the publicity.
I wrote an article for AC, but then some bitch totally griggsed it!
to lie, or tell a far fetched story that no one can or will believe. named after Jack of the same last name from brighton high school
dude, your griggsin I totally griggsed my project
To fix something well with what is lying around .
He used dental floss , a thumbtack , an old mad magazine from 1981 to fix that engine , is that safe .? Yes he totally Griggsed it ....
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Will grigg is the goat. Will Grigg is a god at soccer. Will Grigg is the goat.