To study intensively, as before an exam.
An insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious.
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Examples for "grind"
Examples for "grind"
1They grind their points; they stir poison; they swarm in the streets.
2The 'two days before payday' grind would be easier, if not gone.
3The walnut-crusher shifts gear into a final grind-into-mush setting: Capital Laundry Services?
4Gottta love a man who knows the value of a good grind.
5The mills of the gods in the Interior Department grind very slowly.
1Years earlier, he had become a self-proclaimed coffee nerd almost by accident.
2What's the point being a nerd if you cannot learn such things?
3One player is eliminated each week in a test of nerd-related skill.
4Mitch from Real Genius: Perhaps the truest warts-and-all depiction of a nerd.
5Reuters: Do you think that being a math nerd is an advantage?
1I'm not a policy wonk, I don't know how to fix it.
2You don't have to be a game show wonk to follow it.
3One Mercedes wonk recently put driver input at 20 per cent.
4A smiling Bush connected more easily than serious super-wonk Al Gore.
5Translated from the wonk, that means no more intercontinental ballistic missiles.
1What's the best way to protect my laptop without looking like a dweeb?
2Today I look back on pre-lockdown Romesh as some sort of caffeine-fearing dweeb.
3Allow me to become a keyboard-thumping dweeb for a few minutes.
4So I can be a dweeb loser on a different coast?
5Not on a first date, and certainly not with a dweeb like Kevin Traherne.
1He is, in other words, that person mocked by Johnson: a swot.
2He was the clear winner, beating loyal swot Hermione Granger into second place.
3You fellows swot, and I sit in the orchestra chairs.
4Even though he was a bit of a swot and not much good at games.
5Second and most importantly, I'm going to swot up on all the world history I can.
6Perhaps it is time for Kevin Keegan to swot up on some of Lombardi's famed one-liners.
7He's an awful chap to make you swot.
8The five-day trip gives you the chance to swot up on the history of a fascinating city.
9Asked how many people were likely to fail the higher standard, Dutton suggests they'll swot up and pass:
10As he had done in his swot spot in boxing, Morrie made us think and behave like winners.
11It would be an awful swot to keep it up-lookingout the words and all that.)
12I shall spend my life looking after the property, and there's no particular need to swot for that.
13Because Adams minor (another swot) says it doesn't.
14That riesling is the class swot.
15He is the kind of person that Mr Johnson likes to describe as "a girly swot".
16No wonder the guests in the green room before the show swot over notes like students before an exam.