Definition of Grunt

Noun

• medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught
  
• an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker
  "infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts"
  "he went from grunt to chairman in six years"
  
• the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs
  oink

Verb

• issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise
  "He grunted his reluctant approval"
  

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