Grab

English Meaning

A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.

1. To take or grasp suddenly: grabbed the letter from me.
2. To capture or restrain; arrest.
3. To obtain or appropriate unscrupulously or forcibly: grab public funds; grab power.
4. To take hurriedly: grabbed my coat and hat and left.
5. Slang To capture the attention of: a plot that grabs the reader.
6. To make a grasping or snatching motion: We grabbed for the life raft.
7. Sudden seizure of something or someone; a snatch: "The imminence of death is reflected in every last power-stroke and grab of the great money bosses” ( Dylan Thomas).
8. One that is grabbed.
9. A mechanical device for gripping an object.
10. up for grabs Slang Available for anyone to take or win: "The reputation of the . . . king is still up for grabs” ( William Zinsser).
11. A usually two-masted, square-rigged Arab coastal vessel.