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
What the writer, actor and co-host of the “Las Culturistas” podcast observes is that Los Angeles is a town for celebrity cash grabs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
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
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
But even obvious cash grabs don’t have to be lazy and cynical.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2015
