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Grizzlies

Grizzly \Griz"zly\, n.; pl. Grizzlies.

  1. (Zo["o]l.) A grizzly bear. See under Grizzly, a.

  2. pl. In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices. [Local, U. S.]
    --Raymond.

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grizzlies

n. (plural of grizzly English)

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Grizzlies

Grizzlies may refer to the following sports teams:

United States:

  • Memphis Grizzlies, a National Basketball Association team in Memphis, Tennessee
  • Fresno Grizzlies, a Triple-A minor league baseball team based in Fresno, California
  • Gateway Grizzlies, a professional baseball team based in Sauget, Illinois
  • An informal name for the Memphis Southmen, a team in the former World Football League
  • Fairbanks Grizzlies, a professional Indoor Football League team from Fairbanks, Alaska
  • Seattle Grizzlies, an Australian Football League team based in Seattle, Washington
  • Utah Grizzlies, an ice hockey team from West Valley City, Utah
  • Utah Grizzlies (1995–2005), an ice hockey team based in Salt Lake City, Utah, later relocated and renamed
  • Montana Grizzlies, the college sports teams of the University of Montana, Missoula
  • the sports teams of Franklin College (Indiana)
  • Northside Grizzlies, the sports teams of Northside High School, Fort Smith, Arkansas
  • the sports teams of Wadsworth High School, Wadsworth, Ohio

Canada:

  • Vancouver Grizzlies, a National Basketball Association team that played from 1995-2001 before relocating to Memphis
  • Vancouver Grizzlies (football), a Canadian football team that played in Vancouver in 1941
  • Olds Grizzlys, a Canadian ice hockey team in the Alberta Junior Hockey League

Germany:

  • Ansbach Grizzlies, an American football team based at Ansbach

Usage examples of "grizzlies".

They were filled out by visitors and park personnel alike to gather information on the activities and whereabouts of the grizzlies and their less alarming cousins, the black bears.

In Glacier, grizzlies don't reach the size they do in Alaska, where they have access to all that salmon protein.

The bulbs were routinely dug by the grizzlies in late summer and early fall as they followed the huckleberries into the higher elevations.

The lab had sent back DNA results from Alaskan grizzlies, not those of the lower forty-eight.

Though the same species, grizzlies in Alaska were considerably larger—thirty to fifty percent—and had enough other evolutionary and environmentally based differences that the tests could tell one from the other.

To others, even Molly or Paul, she would seem just another scared tourist anthropomorphizing and exaggerating, the sort who submit reports in lilac ink of grizzlies juggling hedgehogs.

There would be no trees in which to cache food and, if this aggregation site was being used, grizzlies, mostly females with cubs, would be in attendance.

Joan had told her the pattern of both grizzlies and black bears was to feed on the moths in the morning, rest nearby through the middle of the day, then feed again in the evening.

Just one, just once, but it lent her a burst of speed that the onset of avalanches and grizzlies could not.

There were records of grizzlies attacking groups of three and four but it was less common than attacks on a single person.

Grown Alaskan grizzlies with Balthazar's peculiar history were not in demand.

Alaskan grizzlies with Balthazar's peculiar history were not in demand.

We had come some distance from the Bad Hills, a place we were glad to be free of, as we lost two steers there to grizzlies, both of them found in the morning, one half eaten, the other dragged some distance and covered with brush.

There were a lot of grizzlies in these mountains, but mostly they kept out of the way, not because they were afraid, but because they simply did not want to be bothered.

A youngster of that age must be close to its mother, and mother grizzlies are apt to be incarnate fiends if they think that their offspring are in danger.