Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb Informal To complain naggingly or petulantly; grumble.
- intransitive verb To have sharp pains in the bowels.
- intransitive verb Informal To irritate; annoy.
- intransitive verb To cause sharp pain in the bowels of.
- intransitive verb To grasp; seize.
- intransitive verb To oppress or afflict.
- noun Informal A complaint.
- noun Sharp, spasmodic pains in the bowels.
- noun A firm hold; a grasp.
- noun A grip; a handle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To lay hold of with the fingers or claws; grasp strongly; clutch.
- To seize and hold firmly in any way.
- To tighten; clench.
- To produce pain in as if by constriction or contraction: as, to
gripe the bowels. - Hence To pinch; straiten; distress.
- To lay hold with or as with the hand; fix the grasp or clutch.
- To get money by grasping practices and exactions: as, a griping miser.
- To suffer griping pains.
- Nautical, to lie too close to the wind: as, a ship gripes when she has a tendency to shoot up into the wind in spite of her helm.
- noun A ditch or trench: same as
grip , 1. - ; pret. and pp. griped, ppr. griping. Same as
grip . - noun Fast hold with the hand or arms; close embrace; grasp; clutch.
- noun A handful.
- noun Forcible retention; bondage: as, the gripe of a tyrant or a usurer; the gripe of superstition.
- noun In pathology, an intermittent spasmodic pain in the intestines, as in colic; cramp-colic; cramps: usually in the plural.
- noun Something used to clutch, seize, or hold a thing; a claw or grip.
- noun Specifically A pitchfork; a dung-fork.
- noun Nautical: The forefoot, or piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end. See cut under
stem . - noun The compass or sharpness of a ship's stem under water, chiefly toward the bottom of the stem.
- noun Nautical: plural Lashings for boats, to secure them in their places at sea, whether hanging at the davits or stowed on deck.
- noun One of two bands by which a boat is prevented from swinging about when suspended from the davits.
- noun A small boat.
- noun A miser.
- noun A griffin.
- noun A vulture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Grasp; seizure; fast hold; clutch.
- noun That on which the grasp is put; a handle; a grip.
- noun (Mech.) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
- noun Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress.
- noun Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural.
- noun The piece of timber which terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
- noun The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
- noun An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging.
- noun miser; a niggard.
- noun (Zoöl.), obsolete A vulture; the griffin.
- noun [Obs.] an alchemist's vessel.
- transitive verb To catch with the hand; to clasp closely with the fingers; to clutch.
- transitive verb To seize and hold fast; to embrace closely.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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My main gripe is that I pictured two women in my mind until just after a third of the way through the piece.
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My main gripe is that the mobile sites are hosted at the wirenode. mobi domain, though I'd imagine it is possible to transport them over to your own servers too.
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My main gripe is that the mobile sites are hosted at the wirenode. mobi domain, though I'd imagine it is possible to transport them over to your own servers too.
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My main gripe is that, for some unknown reason, web pages now refuse to recognise that I have Shockwave and Java plugins installed on the browser.
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I don’t care what people watch and what they get into, my main gripe is I get this feeling that there are some smelly men in suits somewhere smirking at what they can get away with on TV, and counting themselves as avant guard and artistic.
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Lee's main gripe, she says, is that good clients are being treated like people at risk.
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My only major gripe is that this book covers all four English Praxis II tests instead of focusing on just one test (10041).
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My main gripe about her case is the fact that they dropped all of the 3 tickets issued to her.
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Only gripe is I originally super glued washers every few inches on the wire as stops to keep the rods from sliding and tangling.
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Only gripe is I originally super glued washers every few inches on the wire as stops to keep the rods from sliding and tangling.
yarb commented on the word gripe
Citation (in an unknown sense) on chock.
September 9, 2008
whichbe commented on the word gripe
When complaints become ripe.
October 11, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word gripe
Ooh, I came here to link the page but yarb already did it. :) Weirdnet didn't get the nautical meaning of this verb, which is on the chock page.
October 15, 2008
GHibbs commented on the word gripe
Babies can have a 'gripeing' pain when they have 'gripe', a singular noun.
June 1, 2012