grind
grahynd
- n an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- n the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
a coarse grind of coffee - n hard monotonous routine work
- n the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- v press or grind with a crushing noise
- v make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- v work hard
- v dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
- v reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
grind the spices in a mortar - v created by grinding
grind designs into the glass bowl - v shape or form by grinding
grind lenses for glasses and cameras
- And they go to caucuses or go to the primaries and just work, grind your way up the -- to whatever lies ahead, and that's what's happened.
- They are to the vanished grind houses what the Disney-dressed-up 42nd Street is to the old, disreputable Deuce.
- Muslim clerics denounce her bump-and-grind dancing, attempt to ban her concerts, even pray for rain to keep impressionable fans away from her shows, yet politicians are lining up .