grin | (noun) a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement | Synonyms: grinning, smile, smiling |
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(verb) to draw back the lips and reveal the teeth, in a smile, grimace, or snarl | - |
grind | (noun) the act of grinding to a powder or dust | Synonyms: mill, pulverisation, pulverization |
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(noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: donkeywork, drudgery, plodding |
(noun) the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground | - |
(noun) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | Synonyms: dweeb, nerd, swot, wonk |
(verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, crunch, mash |
(verb) make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together | Synonyms: grate |
(verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, craunch, crunch |
(verb) shape or form by grinding | - |
(verb) created by grinding | - |
(verb) 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 | - |
(verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
grinder | (noun) a machine tool that polishes metal | - |
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(noun) machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing | Synonyms: mill, milling machinery |
(noun) grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars | Synonyms: molar |
(noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep |
grinding | (noun) a harsh and strident sound (as of the grinding of gears) | - |
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(noun) material resulting from the process of grinding | - |
(noun) the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice | Synonyms: abrasion, attrition, detrition |
grindle | (noun) primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America | Synonyms: Amia calva, bowfin, dogfish |
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grindstone | (noun) a revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or sharpen or polish edge tools | - |
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gringo | (noun) a Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen) | - |
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grinner | (noun) a person who grins | - |
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grinning | (noun) a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement | Synonyms: grin, smile, smiling |
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