grub up

grub up

To search in the ground for something, often food, as by digging or scratching. The pigs are thrilled when they can grub up some scraps. Those birds are probably grubbing up the seeds you just laid. Why do the kids love to plop down in the dirt and grub up bugs? Ugh!

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grub up

v.

To procure something by or as if by digging in the ground for it: The bird grubbed up some worms from under the rock.

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs. Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

grub up

verb

See grub

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