Usually means: Opposing the usual way, norms.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word against the grain:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. against the grain: Merriam-Webster
  2. against the grain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. against the grain: Wordnik
  4. against the grain: Wiktionary
  5. Against the grain, against the grain: Dictionary.com
  6. Against The Grain (Phoebe Snow album), Against the Grain (Bad Religion album), Against the Grain (Kurupt album), Against the Grain (Phoebe Snow album), Against the Grain (Redgum album), Against the Grain (Rory Gallagher album), Against the Grain (Scott book), Against the Grain (TV series), Against the Grain (The Veer Union album), Against the Grain (radio program), Against the Grain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. against the grain: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Against The Grain: A to Z list of the most popular idioms
  9. Against the grain: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. Against the grain: Phrase Finder
  11. against the grain: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  12. against the grain: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. against the grain: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Against the Grain: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Paper Making (No longer online)

Definitions from Wikipedia (Against the Grain)

noun:  the fifth album (and seventh release overall) by American punk rock band Bad Religion, released on November 23, 1990.
noun:  the fourth solo studio album by American rapper Kurupt.
noun:  Against The Grain, Acoustic Alchemy's 8th album, was released on 11 October 1994 under the GRP label.
noun:  an American drama television series that aired on NBC from October 1 until December 24, 1993.
noun:  the fifth studio album and seventh album overall by Irish musician Rory Gallagher, released in 1975.
noun:  the second album from The Veer Union (and their first under their current name, since they had released their debut album under the name "Veer").
noun:  a greatest hits album from the Australian folk-rock group Redgum.
noun:  the fifth album by singer-songwriter Phoebe Snow, released in 1978.

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