(a.) One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gove has been eager to paint teachers as lazy gripers unwilling to embrace change.
Gripper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, grips or seizes.
(n.) In printing presses, the fingers or nippers.
Example Sentences:
(1) You might use the gripper to disassemble the device in the classic Hollywood movie cut-the-wire way; you might shoot high-pressure water into it, and you might do a controlled detonation.” That, Singer said, is why the department had explosives handy – sometimes the preferred way to deal with a bomb is to evacuate the area around it and use another bomb to blow it up.
(2) ferocity about – hold on to your hats, readers, this one's a gripper!
(3) When there’s a suspected explosive device, a suspected IED, you have this device with a robotic arm and a gripper on it,” Singer explained.
(4) The computer grippers have been successful in providing an easily operated, enjoyable, purposeful activity for end-stage grip strengthening for patients preparing to return to heavy industry.
(5) Scott's rich palette of building materials, meanwhile, was drawn as much from the salmon-pink bricks specially baked for the job by Mr Gripper of Nottingham as it was from the hues of churches that this intensely hard-working architect had once admired in northern Italy.
(6) "Do you think he uses those hand gripper exercise things so he can get a stronger hold on his opponent's shirt?
(7) For its day, it was groundbreaking: we did a story about racism, with Gripper Stebson, a bully who becomes a right-wing skinhead .