Contextualizebeta

grabber

noun
/ˈɡɹæb.ə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From grab + -er.

  1. derived from *gʰrebʰ-✻ — “to gather, rake, grab, seize”
  2. derived from *grabōną✻ — “to gather, rake”
  3. derived from *grabbōn✻
  4. derived from gravan
  5. borrowed from grabben — “to grasp, grab, seize, snatch”
  6. borrowed from grabben
  7. suffixed as grabber — “grab + er”

Definitions

  1. One who, or that which, grabs or seizes.

    • Another money grabber, according to Ms. Chapman, is the woman who makes $30,000-$40,000 or more a year, but lives as though she makes twice as much.

  2. Something that captures one's attention.

    • The one new tune that was a real grabber had a great slow chanting chorus, "Stand up, you have a right to fight!"
    • Get to the story and make sure that line 6 or 7 is a grabber. TV viewers have attention spans of fifteen seconds, and then they hit the remote.

  3. A machine in an amusement arcade containing prizes which the player must attempt to pick…

    A machine in an amusement arcade containing prizes which the player must attempt to pick up with a mechanical grabbing arm.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for grabber. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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