Crossword clues for grinds
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Ireland colloquial plurale tantum English) tutoring; extra lessons in a specific subject outside of school hours. Grinds are often given by private individuals or firms, and might not be provided by the school. 2 (context Hawaii slang English) food, eats 3 (plural of grind English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: grind)
Wikipedia
In Ireland, grinds are private tuition; a major industry in Ireland, particularly at secondary school level.
"Grinds" is a Hiberno-English term which is used variously to refer to both the lesson ("I'd a maths grind last night") and the teacher ("My maths grind came over last night"), although the latter usage is less common. It is generally used in the plural ("I do maths grinds").
Usage examples of "grinds".
Nine years old, legs apart, with red and blue March knees, stands Walter Matern, spreads his ten fingers, narrows his eyes to slits, lets the scars of his close-cropped head -- bearing witness to falls, fights, and barbed wire -- swell, take on profile, grinds his teeth from left to right -- he has that from his grandmother -- and looks for a stone.
And teeth grind when Walter Matern grinds his teeth from left to right.
Walter Matern grinds from left to right Heavily breathing toads answer.
In windbreaker and knickers he sticks fast to his bollard, he grinds, before attacking the bottle, goes on grinding the same song as soon as the bottleneck is released, and keeps on blunting his teeth.
Matern, the former superintendent, grinds his way unemployed with black dog through the countryside.