grab🔊

To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.

To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).

To restrain someone; to arrest.

To grip the attention of; to enthrall or interest.

(informal) To quickly collect, retrieve, or take.

(informal) To consume something quickly.

To take the opportunity of.

A sudden snatch at something.

An acquisition by violent or unjust means.

A mechanical device that grabs or clutches.

A device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.

(media) A sound bite.

(obsolete) That which is seized.

A simple card game.

A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast.