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grab⋅ber

  [grab-er]
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–noun
1. a person or thing that grabs.
2. Slang. something attention-getting or sensational.
Origin:
1840–50; grab 1 + -er 1
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grab 1   (grāb)   
v.   grabbed, grab·bing, grabs

v.   tr.

  1. To take or grasp suddenly: grabbed the letter from me.

  2. To capture or restrain; arrest.

  3. To obtain or appropriate unscrupulously or forcibly: grab public funds; grab power.

  4. To take hurriedly: grabbed my coat and hat and left.

  5. Slang To capture the attention of: a plot that grabs the reader.

v.   intr.
To make a grasping or snatching motion: We grabbed for the life raft.
n.  

  1. Sudden seizure of something or someone; a snatch: "The imminence of death is reflected in every last power-stroke and grab of the great money bosses" (Dylan Thomas).

  2. One that is grabbed.

  3. A mechanical device for gripping an object.


[Obsolete Dutch or Low German grabben, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German; see ghrebh-1 in Indo-European roots.]
grab'ba·ble adj., grab'ber n.
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