grub

Examples

• All

• Jerry'll fix us up some good grub.

  Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)

• I want the same grub you prepared for her.

  Fiction book (1993)

• - Listen, we're gonna cook some grub up in the kitchen.

  In the Woods (1999)

• But I say we must buy grub, and they say we must travel light and fast.

  Fiction book (2000)

• "I thought no grub was being given out for two more days?"

  Fiction book (1993)

• I was thinking you two could get some grub.

  Despicable Me 2 (2013)

• Let's eat some grub, man.

  The Fast and the Furious (2001)

• Sit down, folks, and eat your grub.

  Stagecoach (1939)

• We stayed the night at the Henry Plant Hotel, ordered up our grub right in the restaurant.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Enjoy the grub.

  Stormbreaker (2006)

Synonyms

M

meal

vsgrub

∞ 1.0

A time when people eat, for example breakfast or dinner

is an informal name used for food rather than the eating event

S

snack

vsgrub

440 1.0

Food you eat between meals, like fruit or chips

is an informal general word for food or a whole meal

C

chow

vsgrub

• Informal

59 8.2

A simple meal or food eaten casually

is the casual informal word for food or a meal

E

eats

vsgrub

• Informal

14 7.9

Food or a meal, often mentioned in informal speech

is the broader informal term for food or any meal

C

chuck

vsgrub

• Informal

4 8.8

A simple meal often eaten outdoors or at work

is the general informal word used more widely for food or meals

Compounds

G

Grub Street

• Offensive

1 9.9

Writers who make low-quality books or poems to earn money rather than for art

How Filling

feast

179 1.9

hearty meal

3 1.6

grub

• Informal

40 7.5

snack

440 1.0

light appetizer

1 3.2

Surface Forms

Etymology