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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cripes/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cripes/#x1)
- Cripes, I've lost my keys again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cripes/#x2)
- «Cripes!» said the boy in the old comic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cripes/#x3)
- Cripes, it's freezing in here. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cripes/#x4)
- Oh, cripes, the dog's eaten my sandwich. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cripes/#x5)
- Cripes, what a mess! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cripes/#x6)

### 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".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/37-bats-and-gosh/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cripes» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cripes/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.