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My friends at Grubwithus (YC W11) are going to help me by organizing a series of dinners in the Bay Area...

Do people outside of California use/understand "grub" as a verb meaning "to eat"? http://onlineslangdictionary.com/definition+of/grub

On the East Coast, I've only heard it used as a noun, and that was maybe 20 years ago. It's been a bootloader for the past 10-ish.

As a Brit I understand it in terms of the noun, not verb. "Food with us" is just as understandable as "Eat with us", though.

I'm an east coaster with lots of west coast friends, from whom I've picked up a lot of west coast slang and mannerisms (e.g. "the 95", "fuckin A"). But I've never heard grub as a verb.

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