Usually means: Express complaints about something minor.
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  1. gripe: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gripe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gripe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gripe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gripe: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gripe, gripe: Wordnik
  7. gripe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gripe: Wiktionary
  9. gripe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gripe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gripe: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. gripe: Dictionary.com
  13. gripe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gripe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gripe (tool), Gripe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gripe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gripe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gripe: Rhymezone
  19. gripe, gripe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gripe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. gripe: Free Dictionary
  22. gripe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gripe: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. gripe: Legal dictionary

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  1. gripe: Encyclopedia

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  2. gripe: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. GRIPE: Acronym Finder
  2. gripe: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gripe, gripe, gripe: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Gripe: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Gripe: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See griped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (intransitive, informal) To complain; to whine.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To annoy or bother.
verb:  (nautical) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) 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.
verb:  (intransitive, now archaic except in passive) To suffer griping pains.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).
verb:  (archaic, transitive) To seize or grasp.
noun:  A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.
noun:  (nautical) A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
noun:  (obsolete) Grasp; clutch; grip.
noun:  (obsolete) That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.
noun:  (engineering, dated) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
noun:  (obsolete) Oppression; cruel exaction; affliction; pinching distress.
noun:  (chiefly in the plural) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
noun:  (nautical) The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
noun:  (nautical) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
noun:  (nautical) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.
noun:  Alternative form of grype [(obsolete) A vulture, Gyps fulvus; the griffin.]

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