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A complaint dressed up in fancier clothes, still picking at the same old scab.

old rootFrom Old English gripan, meaning to grasp or seize
belly originOnce meant a sudden sharp pain in the gut
baby cureGripe water dosed colicky infants for over a century
pirate termGripes were lashings securing a ship's boat in place
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