Dominant kid grabbing Pole repeatedly (5)
I believe the answer is:
bossy
'dominant' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'kid grabbing pole repeatedly' is the wordplay.
'kid' becomes 'boy' (boy is a kind of kid).
'grabbing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'pole' becomes 's' (abbreviation for South, as in South Pole).
'repeatedly' indicates the doubling of some letters.
's' duplicated is 'ss'.
'boy' placed around 'ss' is 'BOSSY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for bossy that I've seen before include "Fond of giving people orders" , "authoritarian" , "Informally overbearing and imperious" , "As overbearing type" , "Disagreeably domineering" .)