Definitions for dragnets

dragnets drag·net

Spelling: [drag-net]
IPA: /ˈdrægˌnɛt/

Dragnets is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 492 anagrams from letters in dragnets (adegnrst).

Definitions for dragnets

noun

  1. a net to be drawn along the bottom of a river, pond, etc., or along the ground, to catch fish, small game, etc.
  2. a system or network for finding or catching someone, as a criminal wanted by the police.

Origin of dragnets

Middle English word dating back to 1535-45; See origin at drag, net1, dray

Examples for dragnets

But despite their successes, Aykroyd and Hanks' rap duet at the end of their 1987 film dragnet was not exactly a plus.

There are stretches in dragnet Nation that are too obviously designed to scare, and parts feel paranoid.

As Julia Angwin notes in her new book, dragnet Nation, the watershed year for tracking was 2001.

Our luck is like water in a dragnet: you pull at it and it bulges, but when you've drawn it out it's empty!

A new book “dragnet Nation” asks hard questions about our online lives.

He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet.

They were arrested at Cairo's Ramses Square on August 16, caught up in the dragnet of a mass arrest carried out by the military.

Their idea of hunting for a workman is to dragnet the back rooms of saloons—especially if they're after a Socialist.

"Mascola ran across our trammels this morning with a dragnet," the girl explained.

Ronquillo had “set a dragnet,” and taken the rice of all the people within reach, beginning with himself.

Word Value for dragnets
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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