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What (who) is grab bag - definition
grab bag
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Rag bag; Ragbag; Grab bag (disambiguation); Grabbag
¦ noun N. Amer. a lucky dip in which items are chosen blindly from a bag.
?an assortment of items in a sealed bag which one buys or is given without knowing what the contents are.
?a miscellaneous assortment.
grab bag
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Rag bag; Ragbag; Grab bag (disambiguation); Grabbag
(grab bags)
1.
A grab bag is a game in which you take a prize out of a container full of hidden prizes. (AM; in BRIT, use lucky dip
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N-COUNT
2.
A grab bag of things, ideas, or people is a varied group of them.
...a fascinating grab-bag of documents about the life of Liszt.
N-COUNT: usu N of n
ragbag
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Rag bag; Ragbag; Grab bag (disambiguation); Grabbag
also rag-bag
A ragbag of things is a group of things which do not have much in common with each other, but which are being considered together.
The government was still in effect a ragbag of Social Democrats and Liberals.
N-SING: usu N of n
Examples of use of grab bag
1. McCain is handing around a campaign grab bag of goodies.
2. Their queries seem to come straight out of the Gotcha Grab Bag.
3. The unusual exchange enlivened a hearing about a grab bag of issues related to the FBI‘s performance.
4. Mantz is still Clinton‘s national finance director, a once–illustrious job that now carries the responsibility for a grab bag of thankless chores.
5. "I guess the senator has changed his position since voting for the 2005 Bush energy bill _ a grab–bag of corporate handouts that I opposed," McCain said.