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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grinder
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
coffee grinder
meat grinder
organ grinder
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
coffee
▪ Latest in electronics, new sail inventory 1990, new coffee grinder system ready to race or cruise.
▪ Counters get completely covered with waffle irons, toaster ovens and coffee grinders.
▪ The Twining Model Co. was responsible for making the mincer, the weighing machine and the coffee grinder on the table.
▪ She roasted wheat in the oven and ground it by hand in an old coffee grinder for our breakfast cereal.
▪ Flake or pellets can be ground down fine enough even for a dwarf cichlids using a coffee grinder.
meat
▪ His voice churned like a meat grinder that had long been abused by its owner.
organ
▪ We never did see that organ grinder again and I felt sorry about what had happened.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a coffee grinder
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Counters get completely covered with waffle irons, toaster ovens and coffee grinders.
▪ Damaged discs or grinders can be very hazardous and gloves and goggles must be worn.
▪ Do not hold the grinder back to front, and never remove the guard.
▪ Getting feedback about your writing can be as pleasant as poking your finger into a food grinder.
▪ His voice churned like a meat grinder that had long been abused by its owner.
▪ Lewis said deputies did not want to risk injuring the protesters by using grinders to cut through their metal sleeves.
▪ The grocer had a grinder somewhere, and his wife unearthed it, dusted it down and plugged it in for me.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
grinder

Sub \Sub\, n.

  1. A subordinate; a subaltern. [Colloq.]

  2. a shortened form of submarine, the boat.

  3. a shortened form of submarine sandwich; also called hero, hero sandwich, and grinder.

grinder

submarine sandwich \sub`ma*rine" sand"wich\, n. A large sandwich on an elongated roll, usually incompletely cut into two halves, filed with various cold cuts, meatballs, lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, olives, etc., and spiced variously, and often having oil or other dressing applied; called also hoagie, hero, hero sandwich, grinder, sub, submarine, poor boy, and Italian sandwich. A single such sandwich may consitute a substantial meal. Very large variants are sometimes prepared for social gatherings and cut into pieces for individual consumption.

grinder

hoagie \hoagie\, hoagy \hoagy\n. a large sandwich on a long crusty roll that is split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the U. S., such as hero, grinder, and submarine.

Syn: bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grinder

Old English grindere "one who grinds (grain);" agent noun from grind (v.). Meaning "molar tooth" is late 14c. (Old English had grindetoð). Meaning "machine for milling" is from 1660s; of persons, from late 15c. Large sandwich sense is from 1954, though the exact signification is uncertain (perhaps from the amount of chewing required to eat one).

Wiktionary
grinder

n. 1 One who grinds something, such as the teeth. 2 (context anatomical English) A molar. 3 A power tool with a spinning abrasive disc, used for grind#Verb, smoothing, and shaping materials, usually metal. 4 A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll. 5 A kitchen gadget for processing coffee, herbs etc. into small or powdered pieces 6 The restless flycatcher (''Seisura inquieta'') of Australia, which makes a noise like a scissors grinder.

WordNet
grinder
  1. n. a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States [syn: bomber, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep]

  2. grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars [syn: molar]

  3. machine that processes materials by grinding or crushing [syn: mill]

  4. a machine tool that polishes metal

Wikipedia
Grinder

Grind, grinder, or grinding may refer to:

Grinder (band)

Grinder was a late 1980s/early 1990s speed metal/ thrash metal band from Germany. They released three full length albums and one EP before disbanding. Grinder was the first international heavy metal act to play in Turkey, on May 12, 1990, at the Open Air Theater in Istanbul.

Grinder (sailing position)

A grinder is a crew member on a yacht whose duties include operating manual winches (called "coffee grinders") that raise and trim the sails and move the boom. It is a physically demanding role with a significant impact on a racing yacht's overall performance.

Grinder (surname)

Grinder is the surname of the following people

  • John Grinder (born 1940), American linguist, author, management consultant, trainer and speaker
  • Susanne Grinder (born 1981), Danish ballet dancer
Grinder (ice hockey)

In ice hockey, a grinder is a player better known for his hard work and checking than his scoring. A grinder is often a player who has limited offensive skills, but is valuable to a hockey team due to physical forechecking skills especially along the boards; for "grinding along the boards". The grinder is not in the spotlight as would be the offensively skilled scoring stars, but they are often fan favorites due to their work effort in games. Thus the grinder is often the player who, by their willingness to endure the physical abuse of going into the corners to dig out the puck, often sets up the goals (passing the puck) for the team's offensive stars. It is common belief in hockey that a good team needs a balance of scoring stars and grinders.

While grinder often refers to a player of lesser offensive skills, this is not always the case. NHL Hall of Fame inductee Bobby Clarke of the 1970s and 80s Philadelphia Flyers was considered a grinder, but was also a highly productive offensive player. While a "grinder" plays a physical style of hockey they are distinguished from an " enforcer", whose role is more physical intimidation and engaging in fights which are not within the rules of hockey. A "grinder" refers specifically to a style of defensive hockey which is within the rules of the game. Sometimes grinder is used in combination with "mucker" to describe a player as a "mucker and a grinder", although it is used as emphasis. In this context, mucker is largely synonymous with grinder.

Indicative of the importance of the grinder is that Bobby Clarke and Mike Eruzione, both grinder-style players, played major roles in their respective country's victories over the offensively skilled Soviet Union national team. Bobby Clarke was a significant factor in Team Canada's victory in the 1972 Super Series as was Mike Eruzione as Captain for United States' Olympic team in the 1980 Miracle on Ice victory. Clarke received the Selke Trophy as best defensive forward late in his playing career.

In 2012, the Hockey News named Dave Bolland of the NHL Chicago Blackhawks as "Best Grinder".

Grinder (biohacking)

Grinders are people who apply the hacker ethic to improve their own bodies with do-it-yourself cybernetic devices. Many grinders identify with the biopunk movement, open-source transhumanism, and techno-progressivism. The Grinder movement is strongly associated with the body modification movement and practices actual implantation of cybernetic devices in organic bodies as a method of working towards transhumanism, such as designing and installing do-it-yourself body-enhancements such as magnetic implants. Biohacking emerged in a growing trend of non-institutional science and technology development.

According to Biohack.me, "Grinders are passionate individuals who believe the tools and knowledge of science belong to everyone. Grinders practice functional extreme body modification in an effort to improve the human condition. [Grinders] hack [them]selves with electronic hardware to extend and improve human capacities. Grinders believe in action, [thei]r bodies the experiment."

"Biohacking" can also refer to managing one's own biology using a combination of medical, nutritional and electronic techniques. This may include the use of nootropics, non-toxic substances, and/or cybernetic devices for recording biometric data (as in the Quantified Self movement).

Usage examples of "grinder".

By the flaring holocaust light the toothed wheels, the soot-blackened timber cage of the raised grinders seemed more than ever some Dantean vision of torment.

Then when the lead singer was in the middle of the finest passage of a bravura song, several of the dilletantes in the boxes would scream out an accompaniment, shaking impassionedly the while, reminding Honey of nothing so much as two rival organ grinders competing on either side of the street.

Most of the shop sold metalware to islanders, everything from hardware to eggbeaters, sausage grinders to sheet-steel stoves, but one corner was devoted to the mainland trade.

Every thirtieth Lantiff was an officer, apparently unarmed, and it was these officers who wielded the deadliest weapon, the tube of lens that some unsung Lantian len grinder had invented.

Had not merychippus developed these self-renewing grinders, the horse as we know it could have neither developed nor survived.

Royalt continued into the machining area where the foot lathes, the drills, and the grinders were set on their mounts and benches.

To make porcini powder, pulverize dried mushrooms in a spice grinder or blender.

Hickory Smoked Salt 1 tsp sage lots black pepper maple syrup, optional The secret to good sausage is to keep everything cold, including the meat grinder.

Nowadays its hundred or so blocks were the bright and lively haunt of alcoholics, agnostics, artists, atheists, beggars, cutthroats, deserters, drug dealers, evangelists, footpads, gentry, heathens, informers, jays, knife grinders, lesbians, libertines, mollyboys, musicians, navvies, ostlers, physicians, queers, recruiters, reformers, sailors, socialists, trulls, users, vagabonds, watchmakers, xenophiles, and yuppies.

The mammoth was tearing out swaths of grass, herbs, and sedge with his trunk and stuffing the tough, dry fodder into his mouth to break it down with efficient rasplike grinders.

With efficient rasplike grinders, they consumed a winter diet of coarse dry grass, plus twigs and bark of birches, willows, and larches with as much ease as they did their summer diet of green grasses, sedges, and herbs.

Grinder to justice, as there was no evidence against them after Waddington died.

Tell me by what art thou bindest On thy feet those ancient shoon: Tell me, Grinder, if thou grindest Always, always out of tune.

The lamps they kindled shone blurrily through the mist, lighting the shopfronts and street stalls and pushcarts of knife grinders, pasta makers, coral carvers, cheesemongers, mallow gatherers, birdseed sellers, porcelain menders, all still crying their wares and services to the passersby hurrying home for the night.

A BOY: He who always stood central, whose phenotypes are the bounceback man and the Grinder, whose posthumous papers we will examine in his lifetime, thinks he still stands central.