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smash-and-grab

smash-and-grab is the alternative form of smash and grab.

Meaning of smash and grab

Noun

smash and grab (countable and uncountable, plural smash and grabs)

  1. (attributive, often) A method of robbery where a glass installation of a shop or other establishment is smashed and items are grabbed as quickly as possible without much regard.
    • a smash and grab raid
  2. (attributive, broadly, often) An act of theft, appropriation, or other form of gaining advantage at another's expense that is done quickly and audaciously.
    • Aggiss and Cowie are smash and grab artists, eclectically borrowing from a range of different dance and performance styles and making them into their own inimitable blended form.2006, Liz Aggiss, Billy Cowie, Anarchic Dance, →ISBN, page 5

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Forms of smash-and-grab

pluralsmash-and-grabs

Questions about smash-and-grab

What is smash-and-grab the alternative form of?
Smash-and-grab is the alternative form of smash and grab.

Words near smash-and-grab in the dictionary

  1. smash rooms
  2. smash someone's face in
  3. smash someone's head
  4. smash the stack
  5. smash up
  6. smash-and-grab
  7. smash-and-grabs
  8. smash-mouth
  9. smashable
  10. smashboard
  11. smashboards

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