Definitions for land-grabber

land-grabber land-grab·ber

Spelling: [land-grab-er]
IPA: /ˈlændˌgræb ər/

Land-Grabber is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 583 anagrams from letters in land-grabber (-aabbdeglnrr).

Definitions for land-grabber

noun

  1. a person who seizes land illegally or underhandedly.

Origin of land-grabber

An Americanism dating back to 1855-60

Examples for land-grabber

From this the land-grabber understood that he planted again at his peril.

If a man had not taken land himself, he might have worked for some one who had, or bought cattle from a land-grabber.

The land-grabber—the parasite who had lived only to destroy—looked up at Bob McGraw.

He pulled back the lapel of his coat, and the land-grabber saw the butt of a gun nestling under his left arm.

Pennsylvania accused our royal governor of being a land-grabber and the catspaw or partner of land-speculators.

But Benton was not a land-grabber, whether in the interest of slavery or of mere jingoism.

"Take him away" panted Carey, on the instant that Sam Singer, with a peculiar low guttural cry, sprang upon the land-grabber.

The word "land-grabber" has been passed to him by German and Sinn Fein propaganda, and he merely parrots it forth.

And as he gazed, almost sorrowfully, at the land-grabber, he puffed enjoyably at Carey's cigar.

In consequence Connell was regarded by the National League here as a ‘land-grabber.’

Word Value for land-grabber
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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