Country Dictionary

The term "grunt" is used in the military as a general term for someone who's MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) is "Infantry". In the Marine Corps all MOS' preceeded by the number "03" are Infantry. About as "grunt" as you can get in the Corps is "0311 - Basic Rifleman".

The opposite of a "grunt" is a "pougue", which is a derogatory reference to pretty much anyone who isn't a grunt, but normally reserved for Marines who work in an office or some other rear-echelon job as part of their regular duties ("In the rear with the gear"). Call a pougue a "grunt" and they love it, but call a grunt a "pougue" and see what happens :-)

"If you ain't a grunt you ain't SHIT"

"The grunts at Phase Line Echo report multiple hostiles, scattered small-arms fire and are currently engaging."

"The fuckin' grunts always come to our E-Club and start shit."

The warriors on the battle field, the men in the shit. The ground re-enforcement unit for any armed forces.

There is no higher honor than being a grunt in the Marine Corps infantry

Grunt is an acronym used during WW2 for troops who had no formal training, or skills. G-general, R-replacement, UNT-untrained,...GRUNT, as they had no special training, they were given rifles and sent to the front.

Grunts do all the fighting.

A guttural noise made for several different circumstances: happy, sad, yes, no, oh yes, oh god yes, during sex, taking a shit

GRUNT ooooo yeah

GRUNT - ah man

<wife> Are you gonna take out the trash?
<husband> GRUNT

A front-line soldier.

A grunt is anyone, regardless of rank, who digs his or her own foxhole, performs front-line tasks, handles live weapons and ordnance and duties in combat zone and risks his or her life.

The opposite of grunt is REMF (Rear-Echelon Motherfucker), a desk job military person off the combat zone. If the definition of a grunt is one who digs his own foxhole, a REMF is anyone who sleeps between clean sheets.

To be a grunt in the Marines is the pinnacle of macho image

Us Military personnell who get to see who they kill as part of their normal battlefield duties.

Yeah, the grunts went into that building outside tower five. They haven't come out yet and we still here them cappin' off rounds.

The noise one makes when entering work and acknowledging co-workers. The grunt is understood between the two, and is usually stands for "fuck, another day at this shitty place!"

When I saw Fred as I walked into hell...I mean work, we looked at each other and grunted. He must be disgruntled too.