1. Acute abdominal pain (especially in infants)
   "The baby's gripes kept the parents awake all night";
   - colic, intestinal colic, griping

1. A complaint or act of complaining
   "I have a gripe about the service here";
   - objection, kick [informal], beef [informal], bitch [informal], squawk [informal]

1. Complain
   "What was he griping about?";
   - bitch [informal], grouse, crab [informal], beef [informal], squawk, bellyache [informal], holler [informal]

Type of: complain, hurting, kick [informal], kvetch [N. Amer, informal], moan, pain, plain [archaic], sound off, speech act

Encyclopedia: Gripes