GRUBBER Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

grubber

noun

Definition of grubber

as in laborer

a person who does very hard or dull work most of the inhabitants of the seedy town are just downtrodden grubbers living from paycheck to paycheck

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Recent Examples of grubber Handre Pollard's grubber was scooped up by center Jesse Kriel, who bumped off two Scots to score. — ABC News, 11 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for grubber

Noun

Trump also got into trouble for hiring more than two hundred undocumented Polish laborers to handle the demolition.

— Kai Bird, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Both are built by laborers, but opposing a pipeline amounts to stopping the creation of a few thousand jobs.

— David Weigel, semafor.com, 31 July 2026

Definition of laborer

Noun

Search and rescue efforts included nearby residents, emergency services, healthcare workers, security personnel and an expert team from the local disaster prevention office, per the BBC.

— Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, a 41-year-old migrant being held at the Delaney Hall detention center, was pronounced dead on Saturday by medical workers at University Hospital in Newark, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement Monday.

— Alex Stambaugh, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026