grub

Food, especially a meal you enjoy.

• Let us get some grub.
• The pub serves excellent grub.
• Where can we find cheap grub around here?

Similar words: food

Common phrases: good grub, pub grub, some grub

A young insect, especially a beetle, with a soft body and no wings.

• A bird ate the grub.
• We found white grubs under the lawn.
• This grub will eventually become a beetle.

Similar words: larva

Common phrases: white grub, beetle grub, grub in soil

To dig into the ground, especially to remove plants and their roots.

• They grubbed up the weeds.
• We spent the morning grubbing out tree roots.
• He used a spade to grub around the stump.

How to use it: grub up something (We grubbed up the old bushes.); grub something out (They grubbed the roots out before planting.)

Similar words: dig, uproot

Common phrases: grub up roots, grub up trees, grub out weeds

To search for something by moving things around in a rough, untidy way.

• He began to grub around.
• She grubbed through the papers for her receipt.
• What are you grubbing for in that cupboard?

How to use it: grub around in something (He grubbed around in his bag for a pen.); grub for something (She grubbed for coins in the drawer.)

Similar words: rummage, rake around

Common phrases: grub around, grub for something, grub about