nabs

Verb

nab (third-person singular simple present nabs, present participle nabbing, simple past and past participle nabbed)

1. (informal, transitive) To seize, arrest or take into custody (a criminal or fugitive).
   • As I was going out of the door, a fellow detective came hurriedly in. "Nabbed them," cried he.1887, Anna Katharine Green, 7 to 12, A Detective Story, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 2

   Synonyms:

   nick, bust, cop

2. (informal, transitive) To grab or snatch something.
3. (Internet, transitive) To steal or copy another user's post.

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Noun

nibs (plural nibs)

1. (UK, slang) An important or self-important person.
   • Vera, you are a gleam of brilliant modernity in our dim old cave of antiques — and their nibs, our ancestors." Peter waved disrespectfully to the portrait1919, Robert Nichols, “The Secret”, in The Century, page 734
2. (UK, dated, obsolete, slang) Self.
3. (cribbage) A jack turned up by the dealer.
   • Two for his nibs.

   Synonyms:

   nob