grub
- noun
- /ɡrʌb/
- Informal
- After hiking all day, we were eager to find some grub to eat at the local diner.
- get some grub
- eat grub
- grab some grub
So let's drive home and make some grub.
- So let's drive home and make some grub.
- I want to take him out and get some some grub.
Examples
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Jerry'll fix us up some good grub.
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I want the same grub you prepared for her.
Fiction book (1993) -
- Listen, we're gonna cook some grub up in the kitchen.
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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.
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Let's eat some grub, man.
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Sit down, folks, and eat your grub.
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We stayed the night at the Henry Plant Hotel, ordered up our grub right in the restaurant.
Fiction book (1990) -
Enjoy the grub.
Synonyms
A time when people eat, for example breakfast or dinner
Food you eat between meals, like fruit or chips
A simple meal or food eaten casually
A simple meal often eaten outdoors or at work
Food or a meal, often mentioned in informal speech
Compounds
- Offensive
Writers who make low-quality books or poems to earn money rather than for art
How Filling
Surface Forms
Etymology
Grub for 'food' likely grew from the older noun grub for the small insect and from the verb grub meaning 'to dig up or find food', so it came to mean a simple, everyday meal.