(countable) An insect at an immature stage of its life cycle. / (uncountable, slang) Food. / (Australia, slang) A dirty person. / (Australia, slang) A despicable person; a lowlife.

To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food. / (transitive, intransitive) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.

plural of grubbing

present participle of grub

The act by which something is grubbed, or dug up.

simple past tense and past participle of grub

plural of grub

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grub

(Australia) The large, white, wood-eating larvae of several moths and beetles, especially the species Endoxyla leucomochla, traditionally eaten by Aboriginals in the Australian desert.

(New Zealand) A grub, Costelytra zealandica, that attacks the roots of grass causing pasture damage, regarded as an agricultural pest.