Reverse Dictionary: GRAB

ADJECTIVES
► GRABALICIOUS ► GRABILICIOUS greedy, grabby, covetous → 1970s W. Indies Rasta & Black British sl.

NOUNS
► MONKEY BITE a hand grab, as just above the knee, no bruise → 1967 Amer. dial.

NOUNS – PERSON
► CONNIVER a greedy person, a grabber → c1960 Amer. dial.
► SCRABBER who snatches, grabs, or takes by force → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
► ANNEX to lay hold of roughly, to grab; to get; to steal → 1845 US jocular usage
► BAG to seize for oneself; to grab; to obtain → 1818 sl.
► BAG ONTO to grab; hence, to pay attention to → 1948 Amer. sl.
► CABBAGE to grab → M19 US sl.
► CABBAGE ONTO to grab; to steal → 1949 Amer. dial.
► CAP to take; to grab hold of → M19 UK criminals’ sl.
► COP to grab for oneself, esp. unfairly → M19 US sl.
► CRATCH to seize or snatch as with claws; to scrape up greedily; to grab → 1377
► FILE ON TO to grab, to take → 1932 Can. sl.
► GLOM to seize, to grab at, to steal; to arrest → 1907 Amer. dial.
► GOBBLE to grab, to seize, to lay hold of → 1849 Amer. dial.
► HECK to lay hold of hurriedly; to grab → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
► LOP ONTO to grab, to get hold of, to latch on to → 1934 Amer. dial.
► MITT to grab, to seize → 1915 US sl.
► MITTEN ON TO to seize, to grab → 1899 Amer. dial.
► MUCKLE to grab hold of → 1971 US students’ sl.
► MUSS to grab at suddenly and violently; to grapple with → 1856 Eng. dial.
► NAB to obtain for oneself, to grab → 1764 US sl.
► NAIL to grab, to seize → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► NAM to seize quickly and rather violently; to grab → 1825 Sc.
► NIBBLE UP to snatch with the fingers, to grab → 1863 Sc. 
► NIP to grab → 1566 UK sl.
► SCRAB to grab, to snatch; to steal → 1890 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► SCRUFF to grab by the scruff of the neck → M19 Aust. sl.
► SMUSS to grab, seize, snatch; to take by force → 1736 obs.
► SNAB to seize, to grab → 1889 Amer. dial.
► SNAFFLE to seize for oneself; to grab; to obtain → 1902 sl.
► SNAG to catch, to get hold of, to grab; to steal → 1895 Amer. dial.
► SNARF to take or grab → 1968 Amer. sl.
► SNAVEL ► SNAVVEL to steal or grab → a1790 sl., now chiefly Aust.
► YAMP to grab. to catch, to overcome, to steal → 1866 Amer. dial.