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What (who) is grab - definition
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Grabs; Grabbing; Grab (disambiguation)
grab
(grabs, grabbing, grabbed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you grab something, you take it or pick it up suddenly and roughly.
I managed to grab her hand...
I grabbed him by the neck.
VERB: V n, V n by/round n
2.
If you grab at something, you try to grab it.
He was clumsily trying to grab at Alfred's arms.
VERB: V at n
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Grab is also a noun.
I made a grab for the knife...
Mr Penrose made a grab at his collar.
N-COUNT: usu sing, N for/at n
3.
If you grab someone who is walking past, you succeed in getting their attention. (INFORMAL)
Grab that waiter, Mary Ann.
VERB: V n
4.
If you grab someone's attention, you do something in order to make them notice you.
I jumped on the wall to grab the attention of the crowd.
VERB: V n
5.
If you grab something such as food, drink, or sleep, you manage to get some quickly. (INFORMAL)
Grab a beer.
VERB: V n
6.
If you grab something such as a chance or opportunity, or grab at it, you take advantage of it eagerly.
She grabbed the chance of a job interview...
He grabbed at the opportunity to buy his castle.
= seize
VERB: V n, V at n
7.
A grab for something such as power or fame is an attempt to gain it.
...a grab for personal power.
N-COUNT: usu sing, N for n
8.
see also smash-and-grab
9.
If something is up for grabs, it is available to anyone who is interested. (INFORMAL)
The famous Ritz hotel is up for grabs for ?100m.
PHRASE: usu v-link PHR
grab
v.
1) (C) grab a few for me; or: grab me a few
2) (d; intr.) to grab for (she grabbed for his pistol)
grab
v. a.
Snatch, clutch, seize violently, grip suddenly.
Examples of use of grab
1. "Grab your buckets, grab your brooms," Clinton said.
2. KING: If you‘re going to grab someone, grab a name.
3. "Grab the flag, grab the flag," he shouted in American–accented Hebrew.
4. "We are concerned that there are both a land grab and a power grab going on," said Theodore M.
5. Chancellor: Biggest ‘stealth‘ tax grab Hundreds of thousands of middle–income families have been caught in what has been condemned as Gordon Brown‘s biggest ‘stealth‘ tax grab.