Grinder may refer to:

Machinery

*Various types of

grinding machine A grinding machine, often shortened to grinder, is any of various power tools or machine tools used for grinding. It is a type of material removal using an abrasive wheel as the cutting tool. Each grain of abrasive on the wheel's surface cuts ...

, used in a machining operation to refine the surface of materials *Food grinders **

Blade grinder A blade grinder, also known as propeller grinder, is a machine that chops material while mixing it, by means of a high-speed spinning blade. Applications of blade grinders for preparing foods include numerous electric kitchen appliances, such as ...

, includes food processors, blenders, electric coffee and spice grinders, etc. **

Coffee grinder Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted, ground coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content, but decaffeinated coffee is also commercially a ...

, a machine used for grinding coffee **

Herb grinder An herb grinder (or simply, a grinder) is a cylindrical device with two halves (top and bottom) that separate and have sharp teeth, blades, or pegs aligned in such a way that when both halves are turned, material inside is shredded. Though t ...

, a grinder used for herbs including marijuana **

Meat grinder A meat grinder (also called a "meat mincer" in the UK) is a kitchen appliance for mincing (fine chopping) and/or mixing of raw or cooked meat, Fish (food), fish, vegetables or similar food. It replaces tools like the Mezzaluna, mincing knife ...

, a machine used for grinding food **

Wet grinder A wet grinder can refer either to a tool for abrasive cutting of hard materials or to a food preparation appliance used especially in Indian cuisine for grinding food grains to produce a paste or batter. A wet grinder for abrasive cutting uses ...

, a grinder that uses water either to soften the product ground or to keep the grinding elements cool *Grinder

winch A winch is a mechanical device that is used to pull in (wind up) or let out (wind out) or otherwise adjust the tension (physics), tension of a rope or wire rope (also called "cable" or "wire cable"). In its simplest form, it consists of a Bobb ...

, a device for tensioning a rope to control a sail on a boat

People

* Grinder (surname) * Bob Baker (boxer) (1926–2002), American heavyweight boxer nicknamed "The Grinder" *

Michael Mizrachi Michael David Mizrachi (born January 5, 1981) is an American professional poker player who won the 2010, 2012 and 2018 World Series of Poker $50,000 Players Championship. Mizrachi also has two World Poker Tour titles, and he finished 5th in the ...

(born 1981), American professional poker player nicknamed "The Grinder" *

Cliff Thorburn Clifford Charles Devlin Thorburn (born 16 January 1948) is a Canadian retired professional snooker player. Nicknamed "The Grinder" because of his slow, determined style of play, he won the World Snooker Championship in 1980, defeating Alex Hi ...

(born 1948), Canadian retired professional snooker player, nicknamed "The Grinder" *

Grinder (biohacking community) Body hacking is the application of the hacker ethic (often in combination with a high risk tolerance) in pursuit of enhancement or change to the body's functions through technological means, such as do-it-yourself cybernetic devices or by in ...

, also known as a biohacker, designer and installer of DIY body enhancements

Places

Grinder, Norway Grinder is a village in Grue Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located on the eastern shore of the river Glomma, about to the south of the village of Kirkenær. The Norwegian National Road 2 and the Solørbanen railway lin ...

, a village in Grue Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway * Grinder Island, Marshall Archipelago, Antarctica *

Grinder Rock The Christiania Islands () are a group of islands and rocks between Liège Island and Trinity Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. Location The Christiania Islands are in the Palmer Archipelago to the west of the Antarctic Peninsu ...

, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica *

Grinder's Stand Grinder's Stand was a stand, or inn, located on the Natchez Trace. A replica can be visited today at the Meriwether Lewis Park, located on the Natchez Trace Parkway in Lewis County, Tennessee, south of Nashville, southwest of Columbia, and east o ...

, Tennessee, the tavern whose cabin inn Meriweather Lewis died in, in October 1809

Brands or products

* Grinder sandwich, a regional name for a submarine sandwich *

Grinders (footwear) The British Boot Company (formerly known as Holts) is a shoe shop in Camden Town in London. The shop was founded as "Holt's" in 1851, selling hobnail boots. In the 1980s, the shop changed its name to British Boot Company, but the business was stil ...

, a footwear brand

Arts and entertainment

Games

* ''The Grinder'' (video game), an unreleased video game * ''

Młynek (nine men's morris) Three men's morris is an abstract strategy game played on a three by three board (counting lines) that is similar to tic-tac-toe. It is also related to six men's morris and nine men's morris. A player wins by forming a mill, that is, three of the ...

'', a board game also known as ''grinder''

Music

Grinder (band) Grinder was a late 1980s/early 1990s speed metal/thrash metal band from Germany. They released three full-length albums and one EP before disbanding. Grinder was the first international heavy metal act to play in Turkey, on May 12, 1990, at the ...

, a German speed/thrash band from the late 80s and early 90s *

Organ grinder A street organ ( or ) played by an organ grinder is a French automatic mechanical pneumatic organ designed to be mobile enough to play its music in the street. The two most commonly seen types are the smaller German and the larger Dutch street or ...

, the operator of a street organ * "Grinder", song by Judas Priest from the album '' British Steel'', 1980

Television

* ''The Grinder'' (TV series), a 2015 American sitcom

Sports

Grinder (hockey) In ice hockey, a grinder is a player better known for his hard work and checking than his scoring. A grinder is often a player who has limited offensive skills, but is valuable to a hockey team due to physical forechecking skills especially along ...

, an ice hockey player whose primary function is checking opponents *

Grinder (sailing position) A grinder is a crew member on a yacht whose duties include operating manual winches (called "coffee grinders") that raise and trim the sails and move the boom. It is a physically demanding role with a significant impact on a racing yacht's overall ...

, a specific role in yachting, whose primary role is to use winches to control the sails

Ships

* , several ships of the Royal Navy