grinding
n.— «“Guys are bleeding to death out there, grinding over every shot,” Feherty said after qualifying last year.» —“Q-school golf’s chamber of horrors” by Lorne Rubenstein Globe and Mail (Toronto, Can.) Dec. 10, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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