Grunt

Grunt, grunts, or grunting may refer to:

Sound and music

• A deep guttural sound
• Grunting (tennis), in tennis refers to the loud noise, sometimes described as "shrieking" or "screaming", made by some players during their strokes
• death grunt, the death metal singing style
• Grunt Records, a vanity label founded in 1971 by Jefferson Airplane and distributed by RCA Records.
• "The Grunt", a 1970 instrumental recording by The J.B.'s

Food and animals

• Not a jug of 32 ounces of liquid, half a growler, (usually beer)
• A food preparation similar to a cobbler
• A family of fishes, also known as Haemulidae

Technology

• Grunt, the JavaScript Task Runner GruntJS
• Fobos-Grunt, a failed Russian mission to Phobos, one of the moons of Mars

Military

• An infantryman, in military slang
• Grunt (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe

Games

• Grunt (board wargame), a 1971 tactical wargame
• Gruntz, a 1999 puzzle/strategy game

Many games use the "simple soldier" meaning:

• A Warcraft orcish warrior
• The simplest unit in the video game Z
• The smallest enemy in the video game Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
• A class in the multiplayer mode of the video game Conker: Live & Reloaded
• An enemy in the Half-Life universe
• The weakest monster in Quake
• Grunt (Halo), an alien in the game Halo
• Grunt, Krogan squadmate in Mass Effect 2
• In the Pokemon games, especially in Pokemon Gold, Silver and Crystal versions, the main character battles Grunts, low-ranking members of Team Rocket

Fiction

• Grunts!, a 1992 fantasy by Mary Gentle
• Grunts (film), a gay pornographic film
• Grunts (film), a 1983 Italian film featured in the movie Troll 2