cash grab
noun
an attempt to make money quickly, often with little or no other merit.
cash grabs
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pluralof cash grab.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Often far-removed from their source material, and often just a bit rubbish, they'd gained a reputation as low-quality cash grabs.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025
Cooley’s film remains very much a mainstream product entrenched in the build-it-as-we-go mythology of these sentient machines, but there’s an attention to the motivations and desires of its characters missing in many Hollywood cash grabs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024
Earlier this year, the singer took to Threads to claim that her former successful and critically lauded pop albums were "cash grabs," upsetting her fans, who weirdly call themselves Kittenz.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2023
It needs to start offering smaller, no-need-to-make-the-cut, star-thick cash grabs of its own.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2022
Pictures of apes have sold for tens of millions of dollars, there’s been an endless supply of headlines about million-dollar hacks of NFT projects, and corporate cash grabs have only gotten worse.
From The Verge ● Jun. 6, 2022
