Associations to the word «Grub»

Wiktionary

GRUB, noun. (countable) An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva.
GRUB, noun. (uncountable) (slang) Food.
GRUB, noun. (obsolete) A short, thick man; a dwarf.
GRUB, verb. To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
GRUB, verb. To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.
GRUB, verb. (slang) To supply with food.
GRUB STREET, proper noun. The home or state of impoverished writers and literary hacks.

Dictionary definition

GRUB, noun. Informal terms for a meal.
GRUB, noun. A soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects.
GRUB, verb. Ask for and get free; be a parasite.
GRUB, verb. Search about busily.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne