grub

About 0.81 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An insect, especially a beetle, at an immature stage of its life cycle.
2. noun Food.

   pub grub

3. noun A dirty person.
4. noun A despicable person; a lowlife.
5. noun A short, thick man; a dwarf.
6. verb To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
7. verb To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.

   to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge

8. verb To supply with food.

Similar words

sponge ferret cadge chuck feed chow eats bum mooch give

Often followed by

street and is in for of to or up

Word family

grubbed grubber grubbers grubbing grubs