"squirrel grip" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2006, Dan Crowley, Larry Writer, Undercover Prop: The Game They Play in Heaven and a Police Career from Hell, page 75",
          "text": "Their breakaway, Philippe Chamayou, had been grabbing our lineout jumpers in the squirrel grip all match long, while ensuring we couldn't return service by wearing a cricket protector For the uneducated a squirrel grip is where an opponent grabs a player by the testicles, the most vile act in the game after eye gouging.",
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          "ref": "2003, Peter Temple, Bad Debts, page 50",
          "text": "'Wootton tells me you put the squirrel grip on one of his commissioners, Jack,' Harry said.",
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          "ref": "2007, Gideon Haigh, The Green & Golden Age: Writings on Australian Cricket Today, page 56",
          "text": "[…] Ponting seems to have traded Waugh's ‘mental disintegration’ for what might be called the ‘psychological squirrel grip’. Of England, he gloats: ‘Mentally, we've got them by the balls.’",
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          "ref": "2010, John Elias, Josh Massoud, Sin Bin: The Untold Story of a True Footy Bad Boy, page 82",
          "text": "Anything went in that competition - fingers ripping your nostrils, being spat at. The only thing I didn't encounter was a squirrel grip.",
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        "A grip on another player's testicles; an illegal rugby tackle involving such a grip."
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        "(Australia, sports, colloquial, often figurative) A grip on another player's testicles; an illegal rugby tackle involving such a grip."
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