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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.
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Did a quick google, seems to have been a term used for the flu
Also the cold. In my parents Spanish (Central America), we still use "gripe" to refer to any disease with flu like symptoms.
Still to this day means flu in Quebec