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  • adjective Able to be grabbed.

Etymologies

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grab +‎ -able

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Examples

  • It probably does feel safer to Harris, a tall, broad-shouldered white man, than to someone in a wheelchair, or someone carrying an easily grabbable purse, or a single woman walking alone.

    There Are Reasons to Support Burgess’ Panhandling Crackdown « PubliCola 2010

  • In patient-facing roles, dangly metal trinkets are considered inappropriately grabbable and such.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • In patient-facing roles, dangly metal trinkets are considered inappropriately grabbable and such.

    An Open Letter to the Usual Suspects Hal Duncan 2010

  • For some reason this jolly soul has become one of the main media spokespeople for the creed that disputes man-made global warming, and this encounter was informative because it illustrated how the balance had tipped, and it was they who had to learn a list of dubious facts and recite them with desperation to anyone whose arm is grabbable.

    What's Going On Mark Steel 2009

  • For my part, I think Dodd's is looking very grabbable (I'm not going to touch Edwards 'hair here ... probably because it would muss it up).

    Glynnis MacNicol and Rachel Sklar: Liveblog! Dems Debate Tim Russert's Giant Noggin! 2008

  • "If I go into Macy's and the item is right in front of us and grabbable," says Jennifer Julier, "it's difficult to deter [my daughter] from wanting the styles that are there."

    Showing Too Much, Too Soon 2008

  • Grab all of your medications—the ones you keep highly grabbable for just this purpose.

    YOU The Smart Patient Michael F. Roizen 2006

  • That's right, up to the shoulder, groping around for a grabbable part of the baby animal.

    Reading, Writing, Cooking and Crafting: Center Schmenter Kate 2006

  • That's right, up to the shoulder, groping around for a grabbable part of the baby animal.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Kate 2006

  • Grab all of your medications—the ones you keep highly grabbable for just this purpose.

    YOU The Smart Patient Michael F. Roizen 2006

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