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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. chow, chuck, eats, grubnoun

    informal terms for a meal

    Synonyms:
    chow, eats, chow chow, chuck

  2. grubverb

    a soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects

    Synonyms:
    eats, chow, chuck

  3. mooch, bum, cadge, grub, spongeverb

    ask for and get free; be a parasite

    Synonyms:
    loaf, shnorr, arse around, cadge, frig around, schnorr, lounge around, arse about, waste one's time, loll around, bum around, scrounge, bum, lounge about, sponge, loll, mooch, bum about

  4. grubverb

    search about busily

    Synonyms:
    bum, sponge, cadge, mooch

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. grubverb

    Synonyms:
    dig, eradicate, dig up, root up, root out, grub up

  2. grubverb

    Synonyms:
    dig, be meanly employed

  3. grubnoun

    Synonyms:
    catterpillar, larva

  4. grubnoun

    Synonyms:
    FOOD

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  1. grubnoun

    Synonyms:
    caterpillar, maggot, larva, grubworm

  2. grubverb

    Synonyms:
    drudge, slave, moil, root out, uprooc, eradicate

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "grub":

    chow, eat

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#2728eat
#6367chuck
#14389eats
#16301sponge
#17260chow
#20026loaf
#20585bum
#22190grub
#115285mooch
#137638scrounge
#152532loll
#173495schnorr

How to use grub in a sentence?

  1. Bertolt Brecht:

    Grub first, then ethics.

  2. Anthony Trollope:

    I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.

  3. Bertolt Brecht:

    First the grub, then the morals.

  4. Scott Morrison:

    It's not a joke, it's not funny, you're putting the livelihoods of hard-working Australians at risk and you're scaring children. You're a coward and you're a grub and if you do that sort of thing in this country we will come after you.


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