Definition of grub
grub 
adjective
- good tasting.
That chicken is grub!
- See more words with the same meaning: good tasting, tasty, yummy.
Last edited on Jun 20 1997. Submitted by Lane Winblde from Mesa, AZ, USA on Jun 20 1997.
noun
- a dirty or gross person.
He is such a grub!
- See more words with the same meaning: unattractive, ugly person (either gender).
Last edited on Feb 12 2000. Submitted by Kerri from Canada on Feb 12 2000.
noun - uncountable
- food.
Let's go get some grub.
Citation from "Road Trip", Parks and Recreation (TV), Season 3 Episode 14 (2011) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.Widely used in the TV Series "Supernatural".
- See more words with the same meaning: food.
Last edited on May 13 2013. Submitted by Lane Winblde from Mesa, AZ, USA on Jun 20 1997.
verb - ambitransitive
- to eat. See also grub up and get (one's) grub on.
I need to grub.
You want to grub these cookies?
- See more words with the same meaning: to eat, drink.
Last edited on Dec 25 2010. Submitted by Lane Winblde from Mesa, AZ, USA on Jun 20 1997.
verb - intransitive
- to labor in uncomfortable, low-paying, dangerous, and/or filthy conditions.
I grub for a living in Florida's sugarcane fields.
- See more words with the same meaning: to accomplish, work hard.
Last edited on Jan 26 2011. Submitted by Harold Z. from Pleasanton, CA, USA on May 29 2008.
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Other terms relating to 'food': | |
| Definitions include: "macaroni" and cheese. | |
| Definitions include: a friend. | |
| Definitions include: term of address for a male stranger. | |
| Definitions include: frozen yogurt. | |
| Definitions include: a submarine sandwich. | |
| Definitions include: 'dinner' or 'supper'. | |
| Definitions include: food. | |
| Definitions include: bar food. | |
| Definitions include: spoiled food left in a refrigerator. | |
| Definitions include: sandwiches. | |
| Definitions include: a sandwich, also called "hoagie" or "sub." | |
| Definitions include: sandwich. | |
| Definitions include: oral sex given to a male. | |
| Definitions include: an impressive buffet of food. | |
| Definitions include: penis | |
Other terms relating to 'good tasting, tasty, yummy': | |
| Definitions include: very good. | |
| Definitions include: sound made to indicate that something tastes, looks, or smells good. | |
| Definitions include: extremely tasty. | |
| Definitions include: "delicious". | |
Other terms relating to 'to accomplish, work hard': | |
| Definitions include: to work hard. | |
| Definitions include: an accomplishment that goes above and beyond what is expected; "a good job". | |
| Definitions include: to criticize; "get on (one's) case". | |
| Definitions include: to devote significant effort towards. | |
| Definitions include: to be so intoxicated from illegal stimulants that one loses complete control over one's body. | |
| Definitions include: to relax, usually with other friends; "chill". | |
| Definitions include: to work extremely hard. | |
| Definitions include: to work hard. | |
| Definitions include: See all-nighter. | |
| Definitions include: See nose to the grindstone. | |
| Definitions include: to work hard. | |
| Definitions include: the busy, hectic modern urban lifestyle. | |
| Definitions include: to seek "paper" (i.e. money.) | |
| Definitions include: to complete a task with excellence. | |
| Definitions include: the metaphorical substance that workaholics are addicted to. | |
Other terms relating to 'to eat, drink': | |
| Definitions include: eating at a restaurant and leaving without paying. | |
| Definitions include: to gorge on unhealthy food. | |
| Definitions include: as a guest, to eat an excessive amount. | |
| Definitions include: oral sex given to a male. | |
| Definitions include: to eat a lot. | |
| Definitions include: a guest who eats all of the host's food and drinks all of the host's drinks. | |
| Definitions include: to eat voraciously. | |
| Definitions include: to eat voraciously. | |
| Definitions include: to consume. | |
| Definitions include: to eat. | |
| Definitions include: down the hatch, i.e. down one's throat. | |
| Definitions include: to stop consuming. | |
| Definitions include: to attempt to attract; "hit on". | |
| Definitions include: to eat a meal; go get something to eat. | |
| Definitions include: to hold two alcoholic drinks, one in each hand. | |
Other terms relating to 'unattractive, ugly person (either gender)': | |
| Definitions include: an ugly person. | |
| Definitions include: an ugly face. | |
| Definitions include: contraction of "fucking ugly mother fucker". | |
| Definitions include: "message understood." | |
| Definitions include: an unattractive person from the Bush, i.e. the country-side of Australia. | |
| Definitions include: a very ugly person. | |
| Definitions include: a derogatory term for an unattractive member of the opposite sex. | |
| Definitions include: someone who is even uglier than a bagger. | |
| Definitions include: an unattractive person. | |
| Definitions include: a person who is so ugly that one would have to put a bag over their head (so as to hide their face) before considering having intercourse with them. | |
| Definitions include: See slumpbuster. | |
| Definitions include: pronounced "nawf" - NAUF is an acronym standing for "Nice Ass, Ugly Face" | |
| Definitions include: an unattractive person with whom one has sex only in order to break a "sexual slump" (extended period of time without sex.) | |
| Definitions include: a person, generally a woman, who has an attractive body, but an ugly face. | |
| Definitions include: an unattractive female or one with a bad reputation. | |
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Other terms relating to 'grub': | |
| Definitions include: to eat. | |
| Definitions include: to eat. | |
| Definitions include: slacker dude. | |
| Definitions include: to eat. | |
| Definitions include: to eat. | |
| Definitions include: a person focused on acquiring money. | |
| Definitions include: bar food. | |
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