gripes
grahyps
- n acute abdominal pain (especially in infants)
- n informal terms for objecting
- v complain
- v hold fast or firmly
- v to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match
- v to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe
- The three main gripes against Paulson are that he was late to the party in battling the financial crisis, letting Lehman Brothers fail was a big mistake and the big bailout bill .
- Ah, these intolerant American astronauts, gripes Costas from his weightless perch in the International Space Station, they keep making him go outside to smoke.
- A woman at this evening's session gripes that her sister is holier than thou but discovers that she is doing the same thing.