gripe

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The helpers are my #1 gripe with Rails.

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Quick take

informal terms for objecting; "I have a gripe about the service here"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of gripe gathered in one view.

noun

informal terms for objecting; "I have a gripe about the service here"

verb

complain; "What was he hollering about?"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for gripe.

noun

informal terms for objecting; "I have a gripe about the service here"

verb

complain; "What was he hollering about?"

See also: bitch, grouse, crab, beef, squawk, bellyache, holler

Example sentences

The helpers are my #1 gripe with Rails.

Too aggressive in tone for what the gripe is here.

I want to hijack this discussion to bring up a personal gripe I have about this all being called "leadership".

I couldnt publicly gripe about what I was going through, because my Blogger no longer existed.

My biggest gripe with LinkedIn is that recently, I made the fatal mistake of letting it look at my Gmail contacts.

The changes to privacy policies are the sort of thing hackers love to gripe about, but don't actually matter much.

My only gripe would be, why couldn't he have used descriptive variable names, so I can better go through and understand it?

It's almost insulting to everyone who does, legitimately, have a gripe with EA as a company.

Anonymous may also have a legitimate gripe but their actions were illegal and Hammond is now paying the price.

The only gripe I have is that the campus is large enough that the Pi shops are a short distance away so you might not drop down there as often as you would like.

My gripe is with the current gouging of consumers by hardware manufacturers/cell phone companies, of the fragmented/poor/outdated hardware coverage in many models, lack of upgrades, et cetera.