Definition of "gripe" []

• Informal To complain naggingly or petulantly; grumble. (verb-intransitive)
• To have sharp pains in the bowels. (verb-intransitive)
• Informal To irritate; annoy: Her petty complaints really gripe me. (verb-transitive)
• To cause sharp pain in the bowels of. (verb-transitive)
• To grasp; seize. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "My main gripe is that I pictured two women in my mind until just after a third of the way through the piece."
• "My main gripe is that the mobile sites are hosted at the wirenode. mobi domain, though I'd imagine it is possible to transport them over to your own servers too."
• "My main gripe is that, for some unknown reason, web pages now refuse to recognise that I have Shockwave and Java plugins installed on the browser."