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1. Coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States
   - hominy grits [N. Amer]

1. A hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone
   - gritrock, gritstone
    
2. Fortitude and determination
   "he didn't have the grit to try it"
   - backbone, guts, moxie [N. Amer], sand, gumption, cojones [N. Amer]

1. Cover with a grit
   "grit roads"
    
2. Clench together
   "grit one's teeth"

See also: gritty

Type of: clench, coat, fortitude, hot cereal, sandstone, surface

Encyclopedia: Grit