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grinder

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1. grinder - Noun

2. Grinder - Proper noun

Meaning

One who, or that which, grinds.

One of the double teeth, used to grind or masticate the food; a molar.

The restless flycatcher (Seisura inquieta) of Australia; -- called also restless thrush and volatile thrush. It makes a noise like a scissors grinder, to which the name alludes.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. Winston Churchill

Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined. Vernon L. Smith

There's two approved methods for getting a pedicure for a guy. Number one, you use your own grinder or...You have an eighteen year-old Vietnamese girl rub your feet and call you "Joe" and that's it! Christopher Titus

This is a ping-pong game with American lives. These young men and women that we put in Anbar province, in Iraq, in Baghdad, are not beans. They're real lives. And we better be damn sure we know what we're doing, all of us, before we put 22,000 more Americans into that grinder. Chuck Hagel

Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to unjust authority. Children are persons. They are small persons whose perfect souls have not yet been ground through the meat grinder of slavery. Gerry Spence

Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM. Nancy Sinatra

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