Meaning

5 senses
  1. One who grubs.

  2. A tool, implement, or machine of the nature of a grub axe, grub hook, etc; (dialectal) a cultivator.

  3. An attacking short-distance kick in behind the defence in which the ball is bounced along the ground, using the uneven bounce of the ball to make it difficult for the defence to retrieve.

  4. A ball that bounces unusually low such that it is difficult for the batsman to hit properly.

  5. (UK, dated, slang)A sweetshop.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Mary is stupid and a money-grubber. I must reconsider the situation.

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  2. She was a money-grubber. She married just for money.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

From grub + -er.

From grub + -er.

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Forms

plural: grubbers
Singulargrubber
Pluralgrubbers

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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