Usually means: Larval stage of certain beetles.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word grubs:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. grubs: Merriam-Webster
  2. grubs: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grubs: Collins English Dictionary
  4. grubs: Vocabulary.com
  5. Grubs, grub's, grubs: Wordnik
  6. grubs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. grubs: Wiktionary
  8. grubs: Dictionary.com
  9. grubs: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Grubs: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. grubs: FreeDictionary.org
  12. grubs: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grubs: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. grubs: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. grubs: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. grubs: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. grubs: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (grub)

noun:  (countable) An insect at an immature stage of its life cycle.
noun:  (uncountable, slang) Food.
noun:  (Australia, slang) A dirty person.
noun:  (Australia, slang) A despicable person; a lowlife.
noun:  (obsolete) A short, thick man; a dwarf.
verb:  To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.
verb:  (slang, dated, transitive) To supply with food.
verb:  (slang, dated) To eat.
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