1. Coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States
   "She ordered shrimp and grits, a classic Southern dish";
   - hominy grits [N. Amer]

1. Grains of rock or sand
   "The wind blew grit into their eyes"
    
2. A hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone
   "grit is commonly used in building construction due to its durability";
   - gritrock, gritstone
    
3. Fortitude and determination
   "he didn't have the grit to try it";
   - backbone, guts, moxie [N. Amer, informal], sand [N. Amer, informal], gumption [informal], cojones [N. Amer]

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

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

Encyclopedia: Grits