1. Issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise
   "He grunted his reluctant approval"

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

Derived forms: grunting, grunted, grunts

See also: grunter

Type of: emit, let loose, let out, noise, percoid, percoid fish, percoidean, unskilled person, utter

Part of: family Haemulidae, Haemulidae

Encyclopedia: Grunt

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