Definitions for grab

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Spelling: [grab]

IPA: /græb/

Grab is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in grab (abgr).

Definitions for grab

noun

1. a sudden, quick grasp or snatch:
2. seizure or acquisition by violent or unscrupulous means.
3. something that is grabbed.
4. a mechanical device for gripping objects.
5. the capacity to hold or adhere:
6. a ship having two or three masts with a square rig, common on the Malabar Coast in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Idioms

1. up for grabs, Informal. available to anyone willing to expend the energy to get it:

verb (used with object)

1. to seize suddenly or quickly; snatch; clutch:
2. to take illegal possession of; seize forcibly or unscrupulously:
3. to obtain and consume quickly:
4. Slang. to cause a reaction in; affect: to arouse the interest or excitement of:

verb (used without object)

1. to make a grasping or clutching motion (usually followed by at):
2. (of brakes, a clutch, etc.) to take hold suddenly or with a jolting motion; bind.

Origin of grab

1580-90; cognate with Middle Dutch, Middle Low German grabben, Swedish grabba

Examples for grab

I made a grab at the gunwale, and caught it in the stern-sheets.

With every grab, the idea that law and politics are separate becomes harder for anyone to believe.

The officers approached Garner and tried to grab hold of him, but he swatted their hands away.

What one side tries to take off the table, to turn from “politics” into “law,” the other side is always trying to grab back.

She'll keep stayin' out o' nights till th' fox 'll grab 'er.

It is unclear if Kerry will be able to grab a bottle or two from the cubby the next time he passes through Moldova.

"Pilot, you will be responsible for this if my prisoners escape," said Mr. grab menacingly.

Bart braced his feet apart and stood ready to grab the beast.

I urged him to grab the other side of the keg several times.

Johnson would tell the grand jury that he never saw Brown stick his hand inside the car and grab the gun.