noun
General Slang
grunt
· noun · military
An infantryman — the boots-on-the-ground soldier.
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The infantryman. The guy who actually walks the ground, carries the rifle, and takes the fight to the enemy. Popularised during Vietnam and worn as a badge of honour — grunts will tell you everyone else in the military exists to support them. Origin is disputed: either the noise made under a heavy ruck, or a backronym (Ground Replacement UNTrained).
“I was a grunt for four years before they put me behind a desk.”
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More broadly, any low-ranking worker doing the unglamorous heavy lifting. Office grunts, code grunts — anyone stuck with the dogsbody work.
“I'm just a grunt on this project, nobody tells me anything.”
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grunt In A Sentence
I was a grunt for four years before they put me behind a desk.
I'm just a grunt on this project, nobody tells me anything.
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Variants
grunts
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