Dictionary

grabber en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡɹæb.ə(ɹ)/

Etymology

Etymology tree English grab Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English grabber From grab + -er.

Meanings

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. 1985, Ebony, volume 40, number 12, page 130:
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!" 1982 August 14, Mary Ann Peacott, Liz Nania, “BT's In Boston”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 5, page 12:
   • 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. 2001, Lydia Wilen, Joan Wilen, How to Sell Your Screenplay, page 166:
3. A machine in an amusement arcade containing prizes which the player must attempt to pick up with a mechanical grabbing arm.

Forms

Deriveds

gun grabber · headline-grabber · code grabber · cookie grabber · frame grabber · landgrabber · video grabber