Grub vs. Lilo — What's the Difference?

To dig up by or as if by the roots

An inflatable air mattress.

To clear of roots and stumps by digging

A type of inflatable air mattress

(Slang) To obtain by importunity

To dig in the earth

To search laboriously by or as if by digging; rummage.

To toil arduously; drudge

The thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects.

A drudge.

(Slang) Food.

(countable) An insect at an immature stage of its life cycle.

Food.

A dirty person.

A despicable person; a lowlife.

(obsolete) A short, thick man; a dwarf.

To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.

(ambitransitive) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.

To supply with food.

To eat.

To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.

To drudge; to do menial work.

To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; - followed by up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge.

To supply with food.

The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; - called also grubworm. See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith.

A short, thick man; a dwarf.

Victuals; food.

Informal terms for a meal

A soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects

Ask for and get free; be a parasite

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