grabber

One who, or that which, grabs or seizes.

• Another money grabber, according to Ms. Chapman, is the woman who makes $30,000-$40,000 or more a year, but lives as though she makes twice as much.

Something that captures one's attention.

• The one new tune that was a real grabber had a great slow chanting chorus, "Stand up, you have a right to fight!"
• Get to the story and make sure that line 6 or 7 is a grabber. TV viewers have attention spans of fifteen seconds, and then they hit the remote.

A machine in an amusement arcade containing prizes which the player must attempt to pick up with a mechanical grabbing arm.