gripe

Plural: gripes

Noun

• informal terms for objecting
  • "I have a gripe about the service here"
• A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.
• A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
• Grasp; clutch; grip.
• That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.
• A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
• Oppression; cruel exaction; affliction; pinching distress.
• Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
• Alternative form of grype.

Verb

Verb Forms: griped, griping, gripes

• To complain about something trivial, or to grasp tightly.
• complain
• To complain; to whine.
• To annoy or bother.
• To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
• To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.
• To suffer griping pains.
• To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).
• To seize or grasp.

Examples

• Don’t gripe about a bad rack; sometimes those letters make the best bingos.
• the gripe of poverty
• What's griping you?

Synonyms

beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, grouse, holler, kick, squawk, complain, whine, whinge

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