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grabber

[grab-er]
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noun
  1. a person or thing that grabs.
  2. Slang. something attention-getting or sensational.

Origin of grabber

First recorded in 1840–50; grab1 + -er1
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Related Words for grabber

craziness, fascination, lunacy, rage, passion, frenzy, craze, enthusiasm, dementia, obsession, craving, fad, infatuation, riddle, conundrum, subtlety, question, enigma, secrecy, problem

Examples from the Web for grabber

Historical Examples of grabber

  • All declared that Sara, with many shortcomings, was neither a poacher nor a grabber.

    Robert Orange

    John Oliver Hobbes

  • I know that kind; we had it in plenty at Deeside, but a 'grabber,' and a 'grabber' of the worst type.

    Leonore Stubbs

    L. B. Walford

  • And you were no grabber yourself, I suppose, till your land and all you had grabbed wore away from you!

  • Twenty or more of the students in that area at the time had important enough connections to class as grabber bait.

    Legacy

    James H Schmitz

  • Just then an unseen hand made a grab at Young's hat—off it went; and the grabber dodged out of sight in the crowd and darkness.

    The Adventures of a Freshman

    Jesse Lynch Williams