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grabby

/ˈɡɹæbi/

grabby adjective: tending to grab, especially rudely or greedily.

Adjective

grabby (comparative grabbier, superlative grabbiest)

  1. Tending to grab, especially rudely or greedily.
    Synonyms:
    handsy
  2. Attention-grabbing; striking, stimulating.
    • Nearly every bookstore contains a designated Colleen Hoover table, display case or section, stuffed with vague but grabby titles, like “All Your Perfects” and “Ugly Love.” I slorped down three of them in one week.2023 July 6, Pamela Paul, “What’s the Story With Colleen Hoover?”, in The New York Times
    • By “this” he meant that the platform was filled with videos that have sensationalized titles, heavily edited content and grabby thumbnails, often featuring a person’s emotive face.2024 May 23, Chris Almeida, “They’re Ignoring MrBeast’s Rules of YouTube, and Thriving”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Noun

grabby (plural grabbies)

  1. (childish, plural-normally) Humanlike hand of some animals, mainly rodents and primates.
    • Look at that gerbil and his little grabbies! So cute.

grabby meaning in Tamil

grabby in Tamil

தீரா ஆசையான

Synonyms of grabby

All synonyms of grabby

Forms of grabby

Adjective
comparativegrabbier
superlativegrabbiest
Noun
pluralgrabbies

Origin of grabby

From grab + -y.

Words formed from grabby

Words that rhyme with grabby

7 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about grabby

What does grabby mean?
Grabby means tending to grab, especially rudely or greedily.
What is grabby in Tamil?
Grabby in Tamil is தீரா ஆசையான. See Grabby meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is grabby?
Grabby can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce grabby?
Grabby is pronounced /ˈɡɹæbi/ (US).

Words near grabby in the dictionary

  1. grabbled
  2. grabbler
  3. grabblers
  4. grabbles
  5. grabbling
  6. grabby
  7. grabby arm
  8. graben
  9. Graben-Neudorf
  10. grabens
  11. Graber

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: grabby (page history and authors); grabby (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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