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grunt
noun- a member of the US Marine Corps US, 1968
- Listen, us guys are goddam saints compared to the grunts. — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 15, 1970
- — Current Slang, p. 16, Summer 1970
- Having served in Korea as a dogface grunt, he knew a lifer when he saw one. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 27, 1993
- An infantry soldier, especially but not necessarily a marine US, 1962
An important piece of slang in the Vietnam war. - — Time, p. 34, 10 December 1965
- In Vietnam, he goes by an assortment of names – the Grunt, Boonie Rat, Line Dog, Ground Pounder, Hill Humper, or Jarhead. — David Reed, Up Front in Vietnam, p. 3, 1967
- Charlie Company was a “grunt” unit; its men were the foot soldiers, the “GI Joes,” who understood they were to take orders, not question them. — Seymour Hersh, My Lai 4, p. 18, 1970
- No, just medics and grunts. — Ronald J. Glasser, 365 Days, p. 29, 1971
- They call them grunts, you know, the guys from the bush in Nam, and they’re supposed to be the gungiest mothers around. — Charles Anderson, The Grunts, p. 15, 1976
- I heard some grunt rolled a grenade in his tent. — Apocalypse Now, 1979
- Now according to some people, folks do not want to hear about Alpha Company – us grunts – busting jungle and busting cherries from Landing Zone Skator-Gator to Scat Man Do[.] — Larry Heinemann, Paco’s Story, p. 5, 1986
- Grunts walk hard and they walk far / In Artillery we ride by car. — Sandee Shaffer Johnson, Cadences, p. 80, 1986
- Grunts who give half their pay to buy gooks toothbrushes and deodorants – winning of hearts and minds, okay? — Full Metal Jacket, 1987
- Marine riflemen, the “grunts” as they called themselves in these Vietnam years, do not depend for air support on the vagaries of the Air Force or on the regular Navy planes from the carriers. — Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, p. 537, 1988
- a menial, unskilled worker US, 1970
- I found in my kitchen cabinet a monstrous rodent chewing himself blue in the race on a Brillo pad, causing me to bag Brooklyn and my grunt job in publishing and move out to the ‘burbs. — Rita Cirtesi, Pink Slip, p. 1, 1999
- an electrician or electrical lineman’s assistant US, 1926
Some power companies in the US have tried to prohibit use of the term to describe the helper position; in general, linemen have perceived this attempt as political correctness carried to an absurd extreme and have continued calling their helpers “grunts”. - — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 46, 1945
- a railway engineer US, 1939
- — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 264, 1946
- in mountain biking, a steep and challenging incline US
- There’s a boulder on one of my local singletrack grunts that sticks up about hub-high. I tried it three times, then filed it under “dismount and walk”[.] — Mountain Bike Magazine’s Complete Guide To Mountain Biking Skills, p. 53, 1996
- power NEW ZEALAND
- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 58, 1998
- marijuana US
- — Peter Johnson, Dictionary of Street Alcohol and Drug Terms, p. 86, 1993
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