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"GRUBS" is a plural of: grub. |
Date "GRUBS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang | Adjective. Source: The definition of "Grub" is the thick-bodied, sluggish larva of certain incets. . Definition: Grubs means to get food, or eat food. It can be used with the ending of ing and be called grubbing. In this form it means hungry. Context: When a person in this community is hungry and they want to go eat with someone they ask if they want to get some grubs. It is not uncommon for a person to use the word grubs after smoking marijuana . Social Source: Teenage skating group from Los Angeles. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Crosswords: GRUBS |
| English words defined with "GRUBS": Anomala ♦ genus Anomala, Grubber ♦ Hornbug ♦ White grub. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GRUBS": Bone-grubber ♦ cockchafers ♦ June beetles ♦ LANDSCAPE SPECIALIST ♦ May beetles ♦ park worker ♦ scarabs. (references) |
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| "GRUBS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GRUBS" is used about 51 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 51 | 47,619 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "GRUBS": dock-grubs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GRUBS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 幼虫 (GRUB, larva, Larvae, larval, Larvas). (various references) | |
German | Raupen (caterpillars, larval), gräbt (digs, trenches). (various references) | |
Korean | ë•…ë²Œë ˆ (GRUB). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ubsgray.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Melolontha melolontha. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GRUBS": grubstake, grubstaked, grubstaker, grubstakers, grubstakes, grubstaking. (additional references) | |
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"GRUBS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gkub, glubs, gras, grubb, grube, Grubl, Gruis, grumbs, grush, Gruss, rgbs, trubs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GRUBS" (pronounced gru"bz) |
| 4 | -r u" b z | rubs, shrubs. |
| 3 | -u" b z | clubs, cubs, dubs, flubs, hubs, pubs, stubs, subs, tubs. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: burgs. | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: bugs, burg, burs, grub, rubs, rugs, urbs. | |
-2 letters: bug, bur, bus, rub, rug, sub, urb. | |
-3 letters: us. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: bourgs, brughs, burghs. | |
+2 letters: bedrugs, brogues, budgers, buggers, buglers, bulgers, bulgurs, burgees, burgers, burgess, burgles, burgoos, dorbugs, redbugs, rubigos, rugbies, subring. | |
+3 letters: auberges, barguest, bearhugs, bludgers, blungers, boroughs, broguish, bruising, brushing, bugbears, bunglers, burgages, burgeons, burghers, burglars, burgouts, burnings, bursting, curbings, firebugs, glabrous, grubbers, grumbles, hamburgs, homburgs, osnaburg, outbrags, rubbings, subgenre, subgrade, subgraph, subgroup, submerge, subrings, umbrages. | |
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