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  • noun Plural form of grubby.
  • noun informal Clothes that are grubby.

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Examples

  • After graduation, it felt just like another day of work in Sacramento.....as I went home put on my "grubbies" and shoveled dirt into the school garden, as we were leaving the nex day.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Jack Garvey 2008

  • After graduation, it felt just like another day of work in Sacramento.....as I went home put on my "grubbies" and shoveled dirt into the school garden, as we were leaving the nex day.

    Group Graduations.......... Jack Garvey 2008

  • One thing I did to save myself for the summer is I had a BIN in the back of the car with necessities … an outing survival kit: Sun Hats, Sunscreen, change of clothes (play grubbies), diapers and wipes, a big towel, a roll of papertowels, a bucket, a few bottles of water, a sealed container of either cheerios-fishycrackers-granola bars - raisins.

    » Scattered Strocel.com 2009

  • I think I have DigDug on the mind due to the fact that the Namco Battle Collection came out yesterday for the PSP and I really want to get my grubbies on a copy.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Classic gaming again in today’s comic 2005

  • - I can let my stubby grubbies go unpolished, too.

    Rimmel Vinyl Outslumps PeaceBang! PeaceBang 2006

  • - I can let my stubby grubbies go unpolished, too.

    Archive 2006-04-23 PeaceBang 2006

  • While I wanted my grubbies to get a hold of a PSP when it was first announced, my enthusiasm waned more than a lot after it became obvious that it isn't really as useful for vids or mp3s as first indicated . . . the puppy doesn't have a hard drive and it really really should.

    Life of Brian: 2005

  • While I wanted my grubbies to get a hold of a PSP when it was first announced, my enthusiasm waned more than a lot after it became obvious that it isn't really as useful for vids or mp3s as first indicated . . . the puppy doesn't have a hard drive and it really really should.

    PSP gets full-on Stereoscope for real 3D 2005

  • Qwilleran, dressed in grubbies for his dinner date at Chet's Bar & Barbecue, watched them gobble their canned crabmeat garnished with goat cheese.

    The Cat Who Sang For The Birds Braun, Lilian Jackson 1998

  • There was the Bear and Turtle Mercantile & Sundrie Items, where miners were forbidden by the Vi Castis Company to shop, and a company store where no one but grubbies would shop; there was a com-bined jailhouse and Town Gathering Hall with a windmill-cum - gallows out front; there were six roaring barrooms, each more sordid, desperate, and dangerous than the last.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

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