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grubs, plural;
  1. Dig or poke superficially at the earth; dig shallowly in soil
    • - the damage done to pastures by badgers grubbing for worms
  2. Remove (something) from the earth by digging it up
    • - all the vines are grubbed up and the land left fallow for a few years
  3. Clear (the ground) of roots and stumps
    • - construction operations including clearing and grubbing
  4. Search for something in a clumsy and unmethodical manner; rummage
    • - I began grubbing about in the wastepaper basket to find the envelope
  5. Do demeaning or humiliating work in order to achieve something
    • - she has achieved material independence without having to grub for it
  6. Achieve or acquire (something) in such a way
    • - they were grubbing a living from garbage pails
Noun
  1. The larva of an insect, esp. a beetle

  2. A maggot or small caterpillar

  3. Food
    • - a popular bar serving excellent grub
  1. chow: informal terms for a meal
  2. mooch: ask for and get free; be a parasite
  3. a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects
  4. search about busily
  5. Grub is an open source distributed search crawler platform. On July 27, 2007 Jimmy Wales announced that Wikia, Inc., the for-profit company developing the open source search engine Wikia Search, had acquired Grub from LookSmart. The cost was $50,000.
  6. GNU GRUB (short for GNU GRand Unified Bootloader) is a boot loader package from the GNU Project. GRUB is the reference implementation of the Multiboot Specification, which provides a user the choice to boot one of multiple operating systems installed on a computer, or select a specific kernel ...
  7. Grub is a municipality in the district of Hildburghausen, in Thuringia, Germany.
  8. (Grubbed) Foraging theory is a branch of behavioral ecology that studies the foraging behavior of animals in response to the environment in which the animal lives. ...
  9. An immature stage in the life cycle of an insect; a larva; Food; Dirt; To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food
  10. (Grubs) The larvae of wood-destroying insects.
  11. (Grubs) A short soft plastic worm with a swimming/curlytail used on jigs, or plain hooks. Grubs comes in hundreds of colors and shapes.
  12. A short, plastic type of worm, usually rigged with a weighed jig hook.
  13. The grub shell, see Section 4.2.3 and Section 7.5.4.
  14. An elongate insect larva, specifically applied to Coleoptera (Scarabaeiform) and  some Hymenoptera.  Usually with C-shaped and thick body.
  15. Thick-bodied larva, usually sluggish, good fishing bait.
  16. Food. Similar to nosh. I remember my Dad calling “grub’s up”, when dinner was ready as a kid. A grub is also an insect larva. Not usually eaten in England. Actually is available in some Australian restaurants! ...
  17. GNU grand unified bootloader. An open source boot loader.
  18. larva of beetle that usually has short legs and is curved in a C-shape
  19. A term that means food . This would generally be used in connection with something that isn t luxurious and wouldn t be used to describe fine-dining. It is often used to describe food from a pub, pub grub. ...
  20. An insect larva, typically of Coleoptera, the Beetles. These larva tend to be sluggish in behaviour, thick-bodied with well-developed head and thoracic legs but no abdominal prolegs.
  21. In site work, the clearing of stumps, roots, trees, bushes, and undergrowth.
  22. Another boot loader for Linux. Allows users to have several different Operating Systems on their system at once, and choose which one to run when the computer starts.
  23. (grub)  v.,  To eat;  Also:  n., food.  “Yo, everyone into the dining room, time to grub!”  “I’m hungry, let’s go get some grub.”  [Etym., African American]
  24. a molded plastic lure normally threaded onto a jighead
  25. shrieked, seeking to fling himself to one side, and the card deftly slid beneath him, fixing onto his chest and shoving him bodily across the floor, up against the wall just left of the door.