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grabber

[ grab-er ]

noun

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of grabber1

First recorded in 1840–50; grab 1 + -er 1
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Example Sentences

Bendy silicone could make a grabber for robot hands that opens and closes.

This reversible bending process could be harnessed for other purposes, such as a grabber for robot hands, Yao says.

They described their new grabber January 25 in Nature Electronics.

Typical robot grabbers are stiff and clunky, so they could damage fragile objects.

A new robotic grabber is ripped straight from the plant world.

In the art world, sex can be the ultimate attention-grabber, one of the best forms of shock and awe.

But the unexpectedly wonderful Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is a hilariously funny audience-grabber.

Is it wrong to look forward to the next media-hungry headline grabber to divert attention from this wannabe pageant mom?

For Scott, the ascent, the 7.5 million-pound thrust, remains an attention grabber.

This early work is raw, quick-moving, and an attention-grabber from start to finish.

If a man had not taken land himself, he might have worked for some one who had, or bought cattle from a land-grabber.

Did you ever see such a beau grabber in your life as that countrified Page Allison?

He, Wickson, a sordid money-grabber, has the power to determine whether I shall or shall not teach in the university of the state.

The English working-man is no Englishman nowadays; no calculating money-grabber like his wealthy neighbour.

Your plant is a land-grabber of Rob Roy proclivities; it believes in a fair fight and no favour.

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