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To seize, arrest or take into custody (a criminal or fugitive).informaltransitive
- As I was going out of the door, a fellow detective came hurriedly in. "Nabbed them," cried he.
- 2
To grab or snatch something.informaltransitive
- 3
To steal or copy another user's post.Internettransitive
nab
næb4 senses · 111 ms
Level C1
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The summit of a hill.
- At Clayton point and other nabs to the south of Scarborough.
- ‘I thought I heard my father,’ he gasped, glancing up to the frowning nab above us. ‘You are sure nobody spoke?’
- 2
The cock of a gunlock.
- The Toe, or Nab of the Bolt, which rises[…]above the Straight on the Top of the Bolt: The Office of this Nab, is to receive the Bottom of the Bit of the Key, when in turning it about, it shoots the Bolt backward or forwards.
- 3
The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.
- the Bottom of the Bit may fall almost to the Bottom of the Nab , and shoot the Bolt back