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gripe
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n 1: informal terms for objecting; "I have a gripe about the
service here" [syn: gripe, kick, beef, bitch,
squawk]
v 1: complain; "What was he hollering about?" [syn: gripe,
bitch, grouse, crab, beef, squawk, bellyache,
holler]
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hype
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n 1: blatant or sensational promotion [syn: ballyhoo,
hoopla, hype, plug]
v 1: publicize in an exaggerated and often misleading manner
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overripe
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adj 1: too ripe and beginning to turn soft
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pipe
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n 1: a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking
tobacco [syn: pipe, tobacco pipe]
2: a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry
water or oil or gas etc. [syn: pipe, pipage, piping]
3: a hollow cylindrical shape [syn: pipe, tube]
4: a tubular wind instrument
5: the flues and stops on a pipe organ [syn: organ pipe,
pipe, pipework]
v 1: utter a shrill cry [syn: shriek, shrill, pipe up,
pipe]
2: transport by pipeline; "pipe oil, water, and gas into the
desert"
3: play on a pipe; "pipe a tune"
4: trim with piping; "pipe the skirt"
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ripe
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adj 1: fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used;
"ripe peaches"; "full-bodied mature wines" [syn: ripe,
mature] [ant: green, immature, unripe,
unripened]
2: fully prepared or eager; "the colonists were ripe for
revolution"
3: most suitable or right for a particular purpose; "a good time
to plant tomatoes"; "the right time to act"; "the time is
ripe for great sociological changes" [syn: good, right,
ripe]
4: at the highest point of development especially in judgment or
knowledge; "a ripe mind"
5: far along in time; "a man of advanced age"; "advanced in
years"; "a ripe old age"; "the ripe age of 90" [syn:
advanced, ripe]
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snipe
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n 1: Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper
family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks
2: a gunshot from a concealed location
v 1: hunt or shoot snipe
2: aim and shoot with great precision [syn: sharpshoot,
snipe]
3: attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning
paper attacked the new House Speaker" [syn: attack,
round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault]
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stripe
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n 1: an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color
or material [syn: band, banding, stripe]
2: a piece of braid, usually on the sleeve, indicating military
rank or length of service
3: V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service;
"they earned their stripes in Kuwait" [syn: chevron,
stripe, stripes, grade insignia]
4: a kind or category; "businessmen of every stripe joined in
opposition to the proposal"
5: a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the
background; "a green toad with small black stripes or bars";
"may the Stars and Stripes forever wave" [syn: stripe,
streak, bar]
v 1: mark with stripes
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swipe
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n 1: a sweeping stroke or blow
v 1: strike with a swiping motion
2: make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer, cabbage,
purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook,
sneak, filch, nobble, lift]
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tripe
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n 1: lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine)
used as food
2: nonsensical talk or writing [syn: folderol, rubbish,
tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce,
codswallop]
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type
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n 1: a subdivision of a particular kind of thing; "what type of
sculpture do you prefer?" [ant: antitype]
2: a person of a specified kind (usually with many
eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character";
"a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case"
[syn: character, eccentric, type, case]
3: (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used
to define the next higher taxon
4: printed characters; "small type is hard to read"
5: all of the tokens of the same symbol; "the word `element'
contains five different types of character"
6: a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end;
produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper;
"he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up"
v 1: write by means of a keyboard with types; "type the
acceptance letter, please" [syn: type, typewrite]
2: identify as belonging to a certain type; "Such people can
practically be typed" [syn: type, typecast]
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wipe
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n 1: the act of rubbing or wiping; "he gave the hood a quick
rub" [syn: rub, wipe]
v 1: rub with a circular motion; "wipe the blackboard"; "He
passed his hands over the soft cloth" [syn: wipe, pass
over]
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stipe
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n 1: supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a
pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap
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syp
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cripe
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gipe
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knipe
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lipe
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shipe
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slype
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