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grunt
 
Noun grunt has 3 senses
  1. grunt - the short low gruff noise of the kind made by pigs
    --1 is a kind of     noise
    Derived form: verb grunt1
  2. grunt - an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker; "infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts"; "he went from grunt to chairman in six years"
    --2 is a kind of     unskilled person
  3. grunt - medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter a grunting sound when caught
    --3 is a kind of     percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
    --3 is a member of Haemulidae, family Haemulidae
    --3 has particulars:
     margate, Haemulon album; Spanish grunt, Haemulon macrostomum; tomtate, Haemulon aurolineatum; cottonwick, Haemulon malanurum; sailor's-choice, sailors choice, Haemulon parra; porkfish, pork-fish, Anisotremus virginicus; pompon, black margate, Anisotremus surinamensis; pigfish, hogfish, Orthopristis chrysopterus
Verb grunt has 1 sense
  1. grunt - issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise; "He grunted his reluctant approval"
    --1 is one way to     utter, emit, let out, let loose
    Derived forms: noun grunt1, noun grunter1, noun grunter2
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
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