grinder

Other forms of grinder

plural

grinders·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about grinder

What does grinder mean?

grinder means "a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grinder?

grinder has 2 syllables: grin-der. The stress falls on "grin". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹaɪndɚ/.

What is another word for grinder?

Close synonyms include bomber, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grinder a common word?

grinder is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.