A type of food that is quickly made, but of low nutritional value; junk food.
Anything standardized, quickly available, and inexpensive, often, of low value.
Food that is served quickly, often standardized and pre-prepared.
Inedible particles in food.
A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.
Husked but unground oats.
A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.
Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.
To cover with grit.
Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.