Monica Crowley predicted that the U.S. will certainly try to nab him—but the request will be denied.
“The quick reaction of the security chief and the detectives is what helped us nab the suspect,” one source told The Daily Beast.
We succeeded to some extent, but failed to nab the key leaders, at which point Bush decided he wanted to invade Iraq.
I know how hard it is to even try and nab Bill for an interview—going through his lawyer, etc.—so how did you corral him?
Still, fans got a real release date—March 6—and have already started sleeping outside box offices to nab tickets.
If we are fairly sharp we ought to nab the whole crowd before they become alarmed.
We'll probably beat you to Skiddyunk, but if we don't, nab 'em if they get on.
Do you remember, Baron, the last time we met asking me to help you nab Wilkins?
So, all I had to do was to wait and nab 'em when they came ashore.
Do you think Jesse Black will tamely sit down and wait for us to come up and nab him?
"to catch (someone)," 1680s, probably a variant of dialectal nap "to seize, catch, lay hold of" (1670s, now surviving only in kidnap), which possibly is from Scandinavian (cf. Norwegian nappe, Swedish nappa "to catch, snatch;" Danish nappe "to pinch, pull"); reinforced by Middle English napand "grasping, greedy." Related: Nabbed; nabbing.
noun
(also nabs) A police officer or detective (1950s+ Street gang)
verb
To catch; seize; arrest; collar: The officers nabbed him around the corner (1686+)
[fr dialect nap as in kidnap, perhaps related to Swedish nappa, ''catch,'' or Danish nappe, ''pull''; probably related to nip; the noun sense is recorded in British criminal slang by 1813]
