Grunt

Grunt, grunts or grunting may refer to:

Sound and music

• 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

• 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
• Grunt-fish, the only member of the fish family Rhamphocottidae

Technology

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

Military

• An infantryman, in American 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, to a point that the word is now common parlance within gaming communities for the easiest 'popcorn' enemies:

• 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 (Mass Effect), Krogan squadmate in Mass Effect 2
• A low-ranking member of a crime syndicate in the Pokémon games
• The name of a perk in Fallout: New Vegas

Fiction

• Grunts!, a 1992 fantasy novel by Mary Gentle
• Grunt!, a 1983 Italian film featured in the movie Troll 2
• The Brothers Grunt, an MTV animated series

Other uses

• Michał Grunt (born 1993), Polish professional footballer
• Grunt (horse)
• Grunts, the main species in Madness Combat

See also

• Grund (disambiguation)
• Grundt, a surname
• Grunty (disambiguation)