v. grubbed, grub·bing, grubs v.tr. 1. To dig up by or as if by the roots: grubbed carrots with a stick. 2. To clear of roots and stumps by digging: grubbed a small plot. 3. Slang To obtain by importunity: grub a cigarette. v.intr. 1. To dig in the earth: grub for potatoes. 2. a. To search laboriously by or as if by digging; rummage. b. To toil arduously; drudge: grub for a living. n. 1. The thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects. 2. A drudge. 3. Slang Food. [Middle English grubben, from Old English *grybban; see ghrebh-2 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] grubber n. |
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