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Grit, Grits, or Gritty may refer to:
Food
- Grits, a corn-based food common in the Southern United States
- Grit (grain), bran, chaff, mill-dust or coarse oatmeal
Minerals
- Gritstone, category of sedimentary rock
- Gastrolith, swallowed abrasive substances with roles in digestion
- Shell grit, dietary calcium source in birds
- Grit, winter pavement-treatment minerals deployed in grit bins
Abrasive technologies
- Grinding (abrasive cutting), an abrasive machining process
- Sandpaper grit size, fineness/coarseness classification
- Grit (sewage), coarse abrasive material in untreated sewage
Media
- Grit (Martyn Bennett album), the last studio album by Martyn Bennett
- Grit (Madrugada album), the third album by Norwegian band Madrugada
- Grit (newspaper), a magazine, formerly a weekly newspaper
- "The Nitty Gritty" (song), a 1963 song written by Lincoln Chase and recorded by Shirley Ellis
People
- Grit Boettcher (born 1938), German actress
- Grit Breuer (born 1972), former German athlete
- Diederik Grit (1949–2012), Dutch translator and translation scholar
- Grit Haid (1900–1938), Austrian stage and film actress
- Grit Hammer (born 1966), retired German shot putter
- Grit Hegesa (1891–1972), German dancer and silent film actress
- Grit Jurack (born 1977), former German handball player
- Grit Lehmann (born 1976), professional female volleyball player
- Grit Müller (born 1972), retired German swimmer
- Grit Naumann (born 1966), retired German female volleyball player
- Nitty Gritty (1957–1991), popular Reggae singer
- Grit Slaby (born 1965), German swimmer
Places
Other uses
- Grit (personality trait), a positive, non-cognitive trait
- GRIT (gene), a protein in humans
- Grits, a former pet of US president Jimmy Carter
- Grits (dog breed), variant of the Spitz
- Grit Šadeiko (born 1989), Estonian heptathlete
- GRITS, a hip hop duo from the United States
- Grit (TV network), an American digital multicast television network
- Clear Grits, 19th-century political movement
- Grit (Transformers)
- Gritty (mascot), NHL mascot of the Philadelphia Flyers since 2018
- Liberal Party of Canada, colloquially referred to as the Grits
See also
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