Definitions for grabs

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Spelling: [grab]

IPA: /græb/

Grabs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in grabs (abgrs).

Definitions for grabs

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 grabs

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

Examples for grabs

Growing rapidly as a community and up for grabs, Asian Americans are deciding elections around the country.

He races back and starts to holler, “Stop it Mel,” and grabs her collar.

Now, when you Google “Brian Lederman” the first result describes him as someone who “grabs a lot of asses.”

At this point, the female rapper comes across as fairly sympathetic—that is, until Azealia Banks grabs the mic.

So I grabs a few things off the wall, and we pikes for the ferry.

A great, rich, busy nation cannot stop to see who grabs its pennies.

“I think the evangelical vote is up for grabs,” Biundo, the former Santorum aide now working for Paul, told me.

At that age you can fashion yourself: everything is up for grabs.

The human body is not for him, so he grabs his bag and hops off.

He cries a minute, then forgets all about it, and grabs up something else to play with.