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cripes, int.|kraɪps|
Vulgar perversion of Christ in the exclamation (by) cripes! (Cf. crimes int.)
1910A. H. Davis From Selection to City xii. 107 ‘By cripes!’ he gasped,..‘I've lost th'..th' cheques!’ 1911L. Stone Jonah i. ix. 100 Stinky spat on his hands, and seized the wooden mallet. Cripes! he would show Pinkey which was the better man of the two. 1919E. H. Jones Road to En-Dor i. 2 ‘What's the suggestion?’ Alec asked. ‘Spooking,’ said I. ‘Cripes!’ said Alec. 1929Sunday Dispatch 13 Jan. 2/4 You've sold me a pup! But, by cripes, I'll..let you have it back. 1930J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement iv. 177 That's what it was—oh, cripes!—awful hole! 1937N. Marsh Vintage Murder vi. 59 By cripes,..I'm sorry. 1952A. F. Grimble Pattern of Islands 68 The captain goggled at me for a second, ‘Cripes!’ he said. |