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