Usually means: Effort expended in physical labor.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word elbow grease:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. elbow grease: Merriam-Webster
  2. elbow grease: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elbow grease: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. elbow grease: Collins English Dictionary
  5. elbow grease: Vocabulary.com
  6. elbow-grease, elbow grease: Wordnik
  7. elbow grease: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. elbow-grease, elbow grease: Wiktionary
  9. elbow grease: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. elbow grease: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. elbow grease: Dictionary.com
  12. Elbow grease: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. elbow grease: Rhymezone
  14. ELBOW-GREASE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  15. Elbow Grease: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. elbow grease: FreeDictionary.org
  17. elbow grease: ESL Idiom Page
  18. elbow grease: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. elbow grease: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. elbow grease: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elbow grease: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elbow grease: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. elbow grease: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. elbow grease: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. elbow grease: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See elbow_greases as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (elbow grease)

noun:  (idiomatic) Effort or hard work, especially physical work involving repeated motion of the forearm, such as scrubbing.

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