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Meanings of grub in English

Catalan
manduca

Informal terms for a meal.

manduca
Catalan
gorrejar

Ask for and get free; be a parasite.

gorrejar
Usage of grub in English
1
The Injun asks me if the cups is in the grub bag.
The Drama of the Forests: Romance and Adventure
2
We talked fast and bolted the grub in the half-hour that followed.
The Road
3
Figure if I start up a pan of grub, that'll bring him.
Karen Memory
4
Pud elected to carry his bag and the portion of the grub.
Bob Hunt in Canada
5
I'll cook the bacon and you unpack the rest of the grub.
The Forbidden Trail
6
From the grub-box he resurrected the half of a cold heavy flapjack.
A Daughter of the Snows
7
Soon the day came when the last of our grub ran out.
The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance
8
Motionless though it be, the Chalicodoma grub is none the less alive.
The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
9
I looked for his cache, but there was no grub in it.
Love of Life, and Other Stories
10
He went and cut down the order I give him for grub.
The Uphill Climb
11
It is here that the grub must bite: only here, never elsewhere.
More Hunting Wasps
12
He looked at the grub half ashamed and made a wry face.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend
13
They give us grub and clothes to the Negroes at that place.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
14
So, Collier and me infested the grub tent with care and activity.
Heart of the West
15
Were all weak as cats when we relaxed from the grub strain.
A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador
16
The Indian took a pack of grub, six mustangs, and my guns.
The Rainbow Trail
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Translations for grub
Grub through the time
Grub across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common