cripes

«cripes» in Mova's school dictionary: a cry of surprise, alarm or annoyance; a soft stand-in… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

interjection (cripes)

meaning for a pupil

(informal, old-fashioned, euphemism) a cry of surprise, alarm or annoyance; a soft stand-in for «Christ». tree →

sense in the lessons

An old-fashioned mild exclamation from comics, old school stories and grandparents; safe and a bit funny today. All regions.

examples

• Cripes, that was close! tree →
• Cripes, I've lost my keys again. tree →
• «Cripes!» said the boy in the old comic. tree →
• Cripes, it's freezing in here. tree →
• Oh, cripes, the dog's eaten my sandwich. tree →
• Cripes, what a mess! tree →

note

Mild, harmless and old-fashioned. It sounds like a character from an old children's book.

In the corpora

• "Cripes" is an old-fashioned mild word used instead of "Christ".

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cripes» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.