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bash and grab

noun

Definitions

  1. The violent taking of something, such as in a robbery.

    • Too often the law of bash and grab, with the axe and saw, have operated on these rich fields of revenue.
    • Mr BOORD (Rotorua) said he had been concerned about the increase in "bash and grab” crime.
    • In narrow marina berths, tightly closed blinds are a defense against everything from bash-and-grab thieves to peeping toms.

  2. To perform such an act.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA