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grub

verb
  1. To break, turn over, or remove (earth or sand, for example) with or as if with a tool: delve, dig, excavate, scoop, shovel, spade. See enter
  2. To do tedious, laborious, and sometimes menial work: drudge, plod, slave, slog. Informal: grind. See work
noun
  1. One who works or toils tirelessly: drudge, fag, plodder, slave. Informal: grind, workhorse. See work
  2. Slang. Something fit to be eaten: aliment, bread, comestible, diet, edible, esculent, fare, food, foodstuff, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pap, provender, provision (used in plural), sustenance, victual. Slang: chow, eats. See ingestion

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