grabber

From grab + -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹæb.ə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -æbə(ɹ)

grabber (plural grabbers)

1. One who, or that which, grabs or seizes.
   • 1985, Ebony, volume 40, number 12, page 130:

     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.

2. Something that captures one's attention.
   • 1982 August 14, Mary Ann Peacott, Liz Nania, “BT's In Boston”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 5, page 12:

     The one new tune that was a real grabber had a great slow chanting chorus, "Stand up, you have a right to fight!"

   • 2001, Lydia Wilen, Joan Wilen, How to Sell Your Screenplay, page 166:

     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.

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