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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grub
I.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Where's the grub? I'm starving.
▪ You can get good grub for less than $10 a person.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But everyone seems to agree that a diet of restaurant grub can't be all that good for you somehow.
▪ Different kinds of wasps will then come to lay their eggs on the grubs, and woodpeckers will later feast on both.
▪ I mean, cripes, they had really bad grub.
▪ The mite is just visible to the naked eye and feeds on honey bees and their grubs by sucking their body fluids.
▪ The next morning all five grubs were solidly frozen, unlike when I had first found them.
▪ They will come flying up against the wind and lay their eggs, which will soon turn into white grubs.
▪ This will expose over-wintering grubs to frost and also birds seeking food.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But I went on grubbing for wood.
▪ But when you start your course you won't be grubbing about in the soil all the time, will you?
▪ Depending on how close it is to successful neighbours and the risk of root disturbance, grub the rootstock out.
▪ He and the rest of the Grill regulars would gladly grub the stumps out of the town lot with their own hands.
▪ I grubbed for whole ones, baby skulls to fill my sack again and again.
▪ She was almost upon you when you swooped, your hands grubbing in your pockets for the razor.
▪ They make me grub for lily-roots and climb trees for honey.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
grub

Sneak \Sneak\, n.

  1. A mean, sneaking fellow.

    A set of simpletons and superstitious sneaks.
    --Glanvill.

  2. (Cricket) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; -- called also grub. [Cant]
    --R. A. Proctor.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grub

c.1300, from hypothetical Old English *grubbian, from West Germanic *grubbjan (cognates: Middle Dutch grobben, Old High German grubilon "to dig, search," German grübeln "to meditate, ponder"), from Proto-Germanic *grub- "to dig," base of Old English grafan (see grave (v.)).

grub

"larva," early 15c., perhaps from grub (v.) on the notion of "digging insect," or from the possibly unrelated Middle English grub "dwarfish fellow" (c.1400). Meaning "dull drudge" is 1650s. The slang sense of "food" is first recorded 1650s, said to be from birds eating grubs, but also often linked with bub "drink."

Wiktionary
grub

n. 1 (context countable English) An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larv

  1. 2 (context uncountable slang English) food. 3 (context obsolete English) A short, thick man; a dwarf. v

  2. 1 To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food. 2 To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by ''up''. 3 (context slang English) To supply with food.

WordNet
grub
  1. v. ask for and get free; be a parasite [syn: mooch, bum, cadge, sponge]

  2. search about busily

  3. [also: grubbing, grubbed]

grub
  1. n. informal terms for a meal [syn: chow, chuck, eats]

  2. a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects

  3. [also: grubbing, grubbed]

Wikipedia
Grub

Grub can refer to:

Grub (search engine)

Grub is an open source distributed search crawler platform.

Users of Grub can download the peer-to-peer grubclient software and let it run during their computer's idle time. The client indexes the URLs and sends them back to the main grub server in a highly compressed form. The collective crawl could then, in theory, be utilized by an indexing system, such as the one being proposed at Wikia Search. Grub is able to quickly build a large snapshot by asking thousands of clients to crawl and analyze a small portion of the web each.

Wikia has now released the entire Grub package under an open source software license. However, the old Grub clients are not functional anymore. New clients can be found on the Wikia wiki.

Grub (Amerang)

Grub is a hamlet is the municipality of Amerang in Bavaria, Germany.

Usage examples of "grub".

But the crowders, like their common adapid ancestors, relied heavily on the caterpillars and grubs they snatched from the branches, and they had sharp, narrow teeth to process their insect prey.

I ate a lot of pub grub: bendy sausages, gingerbaked beans, a trough of cottage pie.

By now I am a crackling sorcerer of grub and booze, of philtres and sex-spells.

It was no skin off his nose if the average cowhand worked his ass off for just a dollar a day and grub, only to get skimmed by everybody from those check cashers to the barkeeps who jacked up the price of bar liquor on a payday weekend.

When I was little, I picked the grubs off the caulies and cabbages at the back of the garden.

Sonora said, aware that Crick and Sam and Gruber were looking slightly stunned by the turn of conversation.

Therefore the bag of his wife was always filled with goanna tails, with great porcupines and birds and grubs, though the wife herself got the grubs as well as the fern roots.

While their minions grubbed and murdered for gold, the real wealth of the land lay in plain view before them.

They cleared away the gorse and heath and grubbed the fir-tree stumps, and found, after a while, that the apparently barren sand could grow a good sward.

Heavily built creatures with wide faces and massive jaws, the australopithecines had been grubbing for insects and foraging desiccated fruit.

Big grove of royal palms on there then, and grubbing out them palms paid for the work.

Frank Hamilton, was back inland with Uncle Jesse Hamilton and Henry Thompson, grubbing out royal palms on the Johnson Mound, cause times was very hard and getting harder.

We ranges up and down and backward and forward over the main trunk lines and the branches of the victual subject, and Mame leads the game, for she is apprised in the ramifications of grub, and the dishes she nominates aggravates my yearnings.

And no more harmful to the Grub, I would think, than a yearly physical examination.

It was hard to imagine how even the grubs at Noware could expect him to make chainguns and rocket launchers seem sweet and innocent.