What it means
Grub is plain, satisfying food, the kind you scoff when you're absolutely hanging and need your belly sorting out. It's not fancy plates with foam and a backstory, it's proper fuel: chips, a butty, a pasty, whatever’s hot and filling. You can also use it as a verb, like we’ll grub later.
Usage examples
"We’ve been on the road all day, I’m starving. Let’s grab some grub from the chippy and call it dinner, yeah?"
"After a long shift we were starving, so we grabbed some grub from the late-night kebab van and ate it on the curb without a word."
Where it comes from
From an old sense of grub, the larvae that birds dig up to eat, then slang for a dig-in meal. The word kept its no-frills, fill-your-belly spirit, plain hot food and nothing fancy.
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