Grinds

/GRINDZ/

Food. A meal. To eat.

Grinds is food. "We go grinds" means let's go eat. Not fancy food — everyday food. Plate lunch, poke bowl, loco moco, spam musubi. That's grinds.

Examples

  • We go grindz. (Let's go get food.)
  • Ono grinds at that spot. (Good food at that place.)
  • Get choke grindz. (There's tons of food.)

Origin

Pidgin English

Alternate spellings

Grindz, We go grind, We go grindz

essential food

Related phrases

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Incredibly delicious. So good it breaks your mouth.

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Delicious. Tasty. Good eats.

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Hello. Goodbye. Love. The spirit of Hawaii.

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Any older local person. Not actually your aunt or uncle.

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