Grit

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Grit can refer to:

• The mesh or unit of measure for sandpaper and other polishing materials
• Grit (geology) or grus (geology), a clastic sediment composed of hard, often abrasive granules of a size range between sand and pebbles, typically from exfoliation of bedrock (typically granite)
  • Gritstone, a sedimentary rock formed by diagenesis of grit
• Grits, a corn-based food common in the Southern United States and Southern Manchuria
  • GRITS (derived from the above meaning) is an American slang term short for Girls Raised In The South
  • GRIT (derived from the above meaning) is an American military slang term for someone from the South.
  • Grits, a derogatory slang term in the Middle Atlantic United States referring to caucasian working class people, a synonym for redneck
• A substance made available to domestic fowl to aid in digestion, as a gastrolith.

[edit] Other uses

• the inability to give up; strong character; pluck
• Road salt, used to prevent ice forming on roads
• Grit (newspaper), a U.S. periodical founded as a newspaper in 1882
• Clear Grits, reformers in the Province of Upper Canada, a British colony that is now the Province of Ontario, Canada
• Grits, a media term for the Liberal Party of Canada
• GRITS, a Christian hip hop group
• Grit (Advance Wars), a character in the Advance Wars series of video games
• Grit (album), album by Celtic fusion musician Martyn Bennett
• Grit, a synonym for dip, or chewing tobacco
• GRiT, a slang for methamphetamine
• Gritty Weed, adulterated herbal Cannabis in the UK
• Grits is also an internet meme on Slashdot
• Grit is also used to smoothen surfaces which are slippery

[edit] Acronyms

• GRIT, an acronym for Gradual Reduction in Tension, a model of international conflict management developed by Charles Osgood and advocated by several prominent International Relations scholars.
• GRIT (Military Acronym) Used as an aide memoir for fire control orders (Group, Range, Indication, Type of Fire)
• GRIT is an acronym for Grantor Retained Interest Trust.