Anagrams of: GRIPES

• acute abdominal pain (especially in infants)

• informal terms for objecting

• complain

• a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year

• an ornament that resembles a spray of leaves or flowers

• the act of grasping

• the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it

• a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes

• the friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road)

• worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made

• an intellectual hold or understanding

• a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place

• hold fast or firmly

• to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match

• to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe

• a person regarded as arrogant and annoying

• domestic swine

• a coarse obnoxious person

• a person regarded as greedy and pig-like

• uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

• mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast

• a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace

• live like a pig, in squalor

• eat greedily

• give birth to (piglets)

• the act of grasping

• the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it

• a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes

• the friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road)

• worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made

• an intellectual hold or understanding

• a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place

• hold fast or firmly

• to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match

• to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe

• a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top

• to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open

• make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry

• regard highly; think much of

• a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface

• small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.

• informal terms for the leg

• a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg

• regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument

• a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing

• succeed in obtaining a position

• pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into

• fasten or secure with a wooden pin

• stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations