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Definition of gripe noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

gripe

noun
 
/ɡraɪp/
 
/ɡraɪp/
(informal)
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  1. a complaint about something
    • My only gripe about the hotel was the food.
    • The main gripe has to be the lack of space for luggage.
    Word OriginOld English grīpan ‘grasp, clutch’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch grijpen, German greifen ‘seize’, also to grip and grope. The current usage, of US origin, dates from the 1930s.
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