2013 February 26, Elizabeth Hoyt,Lord of Darkness: Number 5 in series, Hachette UK,→ISBN:
She wanted togrind herself against him, wanted to moan, loud and free, wanted to take his hand and make him touch her more firmly.
2016 August 16, Heather McGovern,A Moment of Bliss, Lyrical Press,→ISBN:
Heground against her until he was muttering curses, his kiss rougher than before.
2017 December 17, Becca Fanning,Shifter Royal Dynasty Vol 1 (Royal BBW Bear Shifter Secret Baby Romance Series), Gizmo Media:
She keptgrinding until they were both spent: their bliss washing over them entirely.
2020 April 7, Laurelin Paige, Claire Contreras, Sierra Simone, Skye Warren, Annika Martin,Need You Now, Top Shelf Romance LLC:
This morning, we woke up and made out for a solid forty-five minutes,grinding like teenagers until she came against my thigh.
(video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
These enemies give lots of loot when killed, so many players fight them togrind for resources.
The first level of the game is the best place togrind extra lives.
2013, Will Luton,Free-to-Play: Making Money From Games You Give Away, New Riders,→ISBN,page38:
Similarly, nearly all massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), such asDungeons & Dragons Online, featuregrind: Players repeat tasks, or often “quests”, to gain in-game currency to spend on weapons or other ancillary items.
2015 February 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, inArs Technica[1]:
To extend the variety past that, you'll need to unlock new units in each class, meaning you have togrind through the rather lengthy process of using every one of your class’ weapons and skills significantly across several matches.
1862, Frederic W. Farrar,St. Winifred's: or the World of School:
One evening, during evening work, Charlie was trying hard to do the verses which had been set to his form.[…] Wilton, whose conduct had been more impertinent than that of any one else, said to Charlie— “I say, young Evson, how you aregrinding.” “I have these verses to do,” said Charlie simply.
2003, Steven Wunderink,Minding Your Spiritual Business: Life Stories with Life Sense, page139:
I need to pontificate on something that reallygrinds me. So here goes. I am sick and tired of lazy thinkers using the defense of “legislated morality.”
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1900, “Gifford Arthur Nelson”, inThe Naughty-Naughtian,page118:
If you are at all bright, don't be agrind. Grinding may make a second-hand genius of you (for all the real things are dead), and if you become a genius you will be sure to smoke dope or swallow laudanum. They all did it.
1911,Sunset, volume27, page440:
[…] I suppose I don't know much about books, compared with you—” “Oh, I was never much of agrind,” the other cut in hastily.
I've been on thegrind all week, trying to make ends meet.
2023 September 20, Lucy Ford, “How pop-music's hustle culture anthem was made redundant”, inGQ[2]:
Everyone has to work, they mourned, and that takes its toll. They weren't glamourising thegrind because they knew their effort didn't match the supposed rewards.
The term is a Faroese invention. A school of pilot whales reminds of a framework (seegrind above) in the sea, by swimming very close to each other. More likely the word is related to the English wordground and refers to the whales frequently running aground or easily driven onto ground. Another theory suggests it refers to grinding, scraping or rubbing, in as mating behaviour.On the etymology of Faroese Grind “school of pilot whales” The Faroese term was loaned in many other languages; compare GermanGrindwal, Danishgrindehval or Dutchgriend.
grind istaket [gate in a fence]trägrind imur [woodengate in a wall]Would also be called agrind, from similarity to non-solid designs, so not always a hard and fast rule
