Delivered cooked hot grub (7)

I believe the answer is:

brought

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'delivered' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with contact as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'cooked hot grub' is the wordplay.
'cooked' indicates an anagram.
'hot'+'grub'='hotgrub'
'hotgrub' is an anagram of 'BROUGHT'.

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(Other definitions for brought that I've seen before include "Delivered or carried" , "Took with oneself" , "Contributed" , "Caused" , "Carried (to a place)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.

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