[
US
/ˈɡɹəb/
]
[ UK /ɡɹˈʌb/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈʌb/ ]
NOUN
- a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects
- informal terms for a meal
VERB
- ask for and get free; be a parasite
- search about busily
How To Use grub In A Sentence
- The major problem is punters here expect a diet of top-class football along with decent grub. The Sun
- Over the winter months we've been doing a great deal of clearing up on our part-neglected croft garden, grubbing out and shredding dead shrubs and cutting back those that have either grown too large or are crowding others.
- The witchetty grub, for the aboriginal people that depended on them, was a very important thing. Times, Sunday Times
- You're a con man and a money-grubbing sellout.
- Once you've collected a hundred or so caddises then you've got enough to go fishing with - and you can often get ten caddis grubs off a single stone.
- Use them to help scrub down grubby bathroom tiles and really get to the gritty bits. The Sun
- Perhaps as a society we believe the grubby hands of business should be kept off our organs, especially in death.
- One chose witchetty grubs diligently for their flavour depended on the host tree, lemon aspen being especially tasty.
- She could just have been saving herself for some British grub. The Sun
- Beneath a surface grubbiness inside, the seats, carpets and trim were in excellent condition.