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grab

[grab]

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verb (used with object)

to seize suddenly or quickly; snatch; clutch: He grabbed me by the collar.

to take illegal possession of; seize forcibly or unscrupulously: to grab land.

to obtain and consume quickly: Let's grab a sandwich before going to the movie.

Slang.

to cause a reaction in; affect: How does my idea grab you?

to arouse the interest or excitement of: The book was O.K., but it just didn't grab me.

verb (used without object)

to make a grasping or clutching motion (usually followed by at): He grabbed frantically at the life preserver.

(of brakes, a clutch, etc.) to take hold suddenly or with a jolting motion; bind.

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Grab is always a great word to know.

So is top gun. Does it mean:

having a pleasantly plump figure

a person who is the best or one of the best in a particular field; the top-ranked person in a group

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noun

a sudden, quick grasp or snatch: to make a grab at something.

seizure or acquisition by violent or unscrupulous means.

something that is grabbed.

10.

a mechanical device for gripping objects.

11.

the capacity to hold or adhere: The glue was so old it had lost its grab.

Idiom

12.

up for grabs, Informal. available to anyone willing to expend the energy to get it: The Republican nomination for mayor was up for grabs.

Origin:
1580–90; cognate with Middle Dutch, Middle Low German grabben, Swedish grabba

Related forms

grab·ba·ble, adjective

un·grab·bing, adjective

Synonyms
1. grasp, grip, catch.

Example Sentences

For years, high-school students who wanted information on a college could always grab a brochure from the counselor's office.

China might grab around one-quarter of world exports within ten years.

Point out how newscasters may play on a sense of fear for personal safety, ambiguity, or money issues to grab people's attention.

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For years, high-school students who wanted information on a college could always grab a brochure from the counselor's office.

China might grab around one-quarter of world exports within ten years.

Point out how newscasters may play on a sense of fear for personal safety, ambiguity, or money issues to grab people's attention.

When an amorous male bee attempts to mate, the beetles grab his chest hair and are carried off.

Crucial advice for future banding participants: before you grab the bird's body, be sure your partner has grabbed the head.

If it should rain, slip into a stone-and-log shelter, or grab a fireside seat in the estate house and have tea.

Once the site has loaded grab that tab and drag it down to the taskbar.

Grab a coloring book and box of crayons for a few minutes of coloring inside or outside the lines.

The intention was to get close, fire a projectile into the surface and grab some of the ensuing dust.

Earth-bound asteroids grab newspaper headlines for good reason.

But for researchers, they represent one of the few handles they can grab at to study the molecular pathways behind breast cancer.

We moved around the tent, pushing through the crowd to grab samples for each other.

While you're picking up the tomatoes, grab some corn for grilling.

Other programs can grab tags from freedb and other online sources.

Don't grab the arms of the chair or slide backward in it.

His first action on waking was to grab for the box, and a dangling fag was in his mouth all day.

The flicker managed to grab the redheaded by its tongue and force it all the way down to the ground.

They have to grab their legs and push off a number of times to get up.

Grab any opportunity to see the brothers' work you can, because not much of it is available.

Instead, grab a spot on one of the side streets downtown.

It is all so bleak that you feel the urge to grab a bottle of vodka and cling to it for dear life.

He quickly suggested putting a hooked stick in each room that could be used to reach up and grab the metal hook on the screen.

Google has been fairly open about how it intends to grab a large chunk of television advertising.

If you do get pinched, your only decent chance to escape is during the initial grab.

So grab good stocks and invest that's the bottom line.

All the more reason to grab your tent and take in the wild night skies.

It would bite and push and grab and all of the sorts of things that pigs from the panhandle do naturally.

The government sends thugs to grab commercial farms.

Suddenly sharp teeth grab the rat and something quickly wraps the rodent with its long, strong, muscular body.

Not so much to communicate information but rather to grab people's attention… to arouse and fulfill.

Grab your cowboy hat and hit the rodeo in this wild west town.

But it wasn't my writing, it was the material, better positioned to grab a reader's attention.

If surging water flushed the air out of a cavity, the ship would grab at the water rather than sliding over it.

Grab a bite where the air is sweet and the meat is tangy.

They are little more than a financial grab for tax breaks.

Sidle up to the tasting planks slung across barrels out in front of the corral, grab a flute of bubbles, and revel in the view.

Next time you grab the word challenge, drop it at once and think again.

Print out this crazy maze, then grab a pencil and make your way through some pranks.

Grab a loaf of their ciabatta or focaccia, and you'll have a filling meal on your hands.

Grab a cold one and cheer in air-conditioned splendor at the retractable-roof ballpark.

Grab a parent and check out our partners' websites below to find a jumping jack event near you.

Never underestimate the eagerness of schlock horror filmmakers to go for the easy direct-to-video cash grab.

Hardcore palolo connoisseurs grab the wriggling green-and-blue worms and swallow them raw on the spot.

It has mechanical arms that can grab and dig as well as water jets and suction pipes to gently clear away mud and sand.

Grab your gear and join this expedition to visit some of them.

It takes a wrangler's spirit, fleet feet, and no small share of technical expertise to grab data from a raging tornado.

The pair may then grab each other by their talons and fall together, spiraling, toward the ground.

Each may grab and pull his opponent's mawashi belt, but not the strap girding the groin.

Boyd believes there are three possible reasons why a leopard seal would grab a diver.

If a swimmer is unconscious, the dogs have been taught to grab the person's upper arm in their mouth.

Wolves have long legs to run great distances and powerful jaws to grab prey and hold it.

True, you can't buy a visa online and grab it at the departure gate-but you can come close.

Once a cut of meat has finished cooking, anyone can grab a bite.

As the boy ran, the man tried to grab his sweatshirt.

Grab a piece of wholegrain bread with peanut butter and a bit of jelly freeze tube yogurt and eat it as ice-cream.

They now reach out and grab the viewer and create a psychological experience.

Spacesuits have allowed people to grab rocks from the lunar.

Grab the eggs from your chickens, scour the garden for fresh veggies snag local.

The flexible jacket has a pair of wraparound grips which grab.

We have to grab these opportunities while they're hot.

The kinkajou's tail helps it to balance as it reaches for food–it'll grab a branch with its tail as it reaches.

The idea was to grab a copy of all my favorite childhood.

The department and school making the early offer in our case makes a habit of this so that they can try to grab top candidates.

If the monkey can consistently learn to grab the green ball, it is logical to deduce that he can tell red and green apart.

Drag the songs you want into the playlist creator and then grab the embed code to post that playlist anywhere you like.

Get up go the the kitchen grab some ice put it in a bowl.

Grab a cup of joe and a pastry to go, or linger with the locals.

It is a fairly sophisticated attack to be able to grab data from memory.

It is commonsense that if the eyes see the eatable stuff the fingers grab it to stuff into mouth.

If you can grab an enemy with the hand, you can take control of them.

And i don't reward them for bad behavior by letting them go back to bed or grab a smoke.

These days, the accepted rules on what a conqueror can grab are different.

In some distribution centers, fighting broke out among desperate victims to grab tents from overwhelmed aid workers.

Then they would have to find a way to enter a boat or piece of wreckage on which to grab to avoid exhaustion and hypothermia.

So the next time you're rushing around before a dinner party, go ahead and grab that bouquet.

If someone tries to grab you from behind, they get the full, hefty shock out of it.

I'd say grab a bunch of suits in your size, take them to the dressing room and try them all.

Cases in which retirees can return to work with their full salary grab the headlines.

They can reach deep down below the surface of lakes or in wetlands to grab plants to eat.

Eventually you will be able to grab the membrane and pull it off.

And the sheer absurdity of the representations started to grab a hold of.

Zombies race after the survivors and try to grab as many flags as they can.

Grab your kleenex and lay the whole thing out for them.

On his way out the door, he paused to grab a beer from the beverage cart.

They will grab onto any of these sorts of arguments.

About the time you reached the bottom of the drum,and if you were fast enough you could grab the neck and gradually remove the.

We show him where to grab a bike when he wants to pedal around with his backpack and a fly rod.

It took far more time to grab these shots than the actually do it.

Or maybe it looks fine because they aren't worried about looking stupid carrying such bags and thus don't grab unwanted attention.

Floating rates create the temptation for governments to drive down their currencies and grab a bigger share of world trade.

They reach out and grab the viewer and create a psychological experience.

The trick is to either grab shrapnel or coax it toward the planet, where it will burn up in the atmosphere.

If you have an opportunity to live/work there, grab it right now before it goes away.

Smart businesses will grab the chance to play the role of white knight.

Later, the birds grab hold of one another with their talons and fall spiraling towards earth.

Upon release, the springy little plastic jaws grab onto the breached area of an artery, stanching the blood flow.

Grab a cuppa or a pipe and start slashing red through their papers.

In short, the cable companies could easily use their cost advantage to grab a bigger chunk of the lucrative broadband market.

There so many moovies with such great actors and scenes that grab your heart.

Grab the opportunities to instill your values every time you get them.

Madagascar also sits on rich gem veins, which have prompted impoverished locals to try to grab a piece of the action.

Seabirds, particularly albatrosses and petrels, regularly grab the baited hooks.

There is a great deal that folks don't even imagine when they sit down to a turkey dinner or grab a burger.

The grooves provide a surface for the bat's claws to grab if they are sliding inside the bat house upside down towards the ground.

The tension between the two firms has been growing as both manoeuvre to grab a bigger share of the mobile-advertising business.

British outfits grab more work from the private sector.

So grab your backpack, boots, and some granola bars and get out and enjoy nature.

Instead of shunning such unregulated funds, investors have been falling over themselves to grab a piece of the action.

Your only option is to grab another half-full plastic cup.

Line up a group of students, side by side, in front of the room and ask them to reach out and grab hands.

After all, they have nothing to lose-apart from what they can grab on the high seas.

Grab a napkin and see how much you know about international tastes and.

It is far easier to grab the thing everybody is talking about or that you heard on the radio that morning.

He waits for his mother to grab one and sidles over to take it from her mouth.

There would always be an incentive for one or more firms to break ranks and grab at any short-term profits on offer.

Ticks can grab onto people's skin and suck their blood.

Still others can leap many times their body length, covering great distances to grab their prey.

Free to burp and fart without apology, to grab food and smoke and run shirtless through the thorns.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

an Oriental ship having two or three masts with a square rig.

Origin:
1670–80; < Arabic ghurāb literally, raven

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World English Dictionary

grab (ɡræb)

—vb , grabs, grabbing, grabbed
1.	to seize hold of (something)
2.	(tr) to seize illegally or unscrupulously
3.	(tr) to arrest; catch
4.	(intr) (of a brake or clutch in a vehicle) to grip and release intermittently causing juddering
5.	informal (tr) to catch the attention or interest of; impress

—n
6.	the act or an instance of grabbing
7.	a mechanical device for gripping objects, esp the hinged jaws of a mechanical excavator
8.	something that is grabbed
9.	informal up for grabs available to be bought, claimed, or won

[C16: probably from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch grabben; related to Swedish grabba, Sanskrit grbhnāti he seizes]

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Word Origin & History

grab

1589, from M.Du. or M.L.G. grabben "to grab," from P.Gmc. *grab (cf. O.H.G. garba "sheaf," lit. "that which is gathered up together"), from PIE *gherebh- "to seize" (cf. Skt. grbhnati "seizes," O.Pers. grab- "seize" as possession or prisoner, O.C.S. grabiti "to seize, rob," Lith. grebiu "to rake"). First

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record of grab-bag "miscellaneous mixture" is 1855, originally a carnival game.

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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

grab

In addition to the idiom beginning with grab, also see how does that grab you; up for grabs.