Meaning of gripe in English

gripe

noun [ C ]

informal

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/ɡraɪp/

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a strong complaint:

Her main gripe is that she's not being trained properly.

Synonyms

beef  (COMPLAINT) informal
complaint (REPORT OF A PROBLEM)
grievance

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gripe

verb [ I ]

informal

/ɡraɪp/ us

/ɡraɪp/

to complain continuously about something in a way that is annoying:

gripe about There's no point griping about the price of things.

Synonyms

complain

moan (COMPLAIN) informal disapproving

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Employees also have griped that some 130 of the city's top-paid officials get free downtown parking.
Instead of griping about how intolerable this situation is, people should follow your example and just leave.
Environmentalists, meanwhile, gripe that junk mail requires some 4 million tons of paper, nearly half of which lands in the trash unopened.
Valdez had come face to face with a phenomenon that industry critics have been griping about for years.
"Florida ain't ranked in the Top 25, and they're on TV every Saturday," he gripes.

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(Definition of gripe from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

gripe | American Dictionary

gripe

noun [ C ]

infml

/ɡrɑɪp/

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a strong complaint:

My biggest gripe about living here is the hot weather.

gripe

verb [ I ] us

/ɡrɑɪp/

People gripe about doing yard work.

(Definition of gripe from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of gripe

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My only gripe is that there are few 'general' papers and nothing on numerical modelling and thus the volume is heavily weighted towards case studies.

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My only gripe was to question the wisdom of placing a technical chapter at the beginning of the book.

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I have other gripes, but on balance the book is a very worthwhile piece of work.

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Despite such localized gripes, this is an excellent, and an excellently c conceived and edited, essay collection.

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This is a minor gripe, in truth, and one that will only find sympathy among vertebrate palaeobiologists with my particular range of interests.

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Presented with a volume so extensive in its coverage, it would be an unusual reviewer who could not come up with a few gripes.

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My only gripe with the book is the continuing inclusion of the autistic spectrum disorders under the general term of psychoses by some contributors.

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These are minor gripes, however.

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But these are small gripes.

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Had e-mail not been so widely available, the criticism probably would have not become known outside the company; but the gripes would still have been there.

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They are not griping about self-interest but expressing deep concern for a profession in which they take pride.

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