GRUB meaning: Food, informal term for eating

We found 39 dictionaries that define the word grub:

General (28 matching dictionaries)

grub: Merriam-Webster
grub: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
grub: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
grub: Collins English Dictionary
grub: Vocabulary.com
Grub, grub: Wordnik
grub: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
grub: Wiktionary
grub: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
grub: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
grub: Infoplease Dictionary
grub: Dictionary.com
grub (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
grub: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
GRUB, Grub (disambiguation), Grub (larva), Grub (search engine), Grub: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Grub: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
grub: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
grub: Rhymezone
Grub: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
grub: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
GRUB: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
grub: FreeDictionary.org
grub: Mnemonic Dictionary
grub: TheFreeDictionary.com
Grub: World Wide Words
grub: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

GRUB (disambiguation), grub: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)

grub: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
GRUB (disambiguation), grub: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

GRUB: Acronym Finder
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
grub: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)

Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

grub, grub, grub, grub, grub, grub, grub: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
grub: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
grub: ESL Slang page

(Note: See grubbed as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (countable) An insect at an immature stage of its life cycle.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, slang) Food.
▸ noun:  (Australia, slang) A dirty person.
▸ noun:  (Australia, slang) A despicable person; a lowlife.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A short, thick man; a dwarf.
▸ verb:  To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.
▸ verb:  (slang, dated, transitive) To supply with food.
▸ verb:  (slang, dated) To eat.

Similar:

sponge, cadge, ferret, chuck, chow, feed, eats, bum, mooch, give, more...

Opposite:

gourmet, delicacy, cuisine, feast, banquet

Types:

fried chicken, steak, chicken, pizza, sushi, pancakes, pork chops, chili, more...

Phrases:

Grub Street, white grub, pub grub, grub up, witchetty grub, more...

Adjectives:

white, good, little, more, small, enough, large, young, fat, legless, footless

Colors:

olive, khaki, mustard, sage, avocado, more...