grab game

English

Noun

the grab game (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) The practice of theft by grabbing or snatching a purse or other piece of property.
    • 1887, Annals of Savannah, 1850-1937, page 441:
      SMN October 16 , 1887: 8/1 - Philip Henry an athletic young Negro, tried the grab game in Falk & Sons' clothing house last night, and will be called upon in Police Court to-morrow to explain […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for grab game under grab in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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