Usually means: Catching or seizing quickly or suddenly.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. nabbing: Merriam-Webster
  2. nabbing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nabbing: Collins English Dictionary
  4. nabbing: Vocabulary.com
  5. Nabbing, nabbing: Wordnik
  6. nabbing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. nabbing: Wiktionary
  8. Nabbing, nabbing: Dictionary.com
  9. nabbing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Nabbing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Nabbing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. nabbing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. nabbing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Nabbing: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See nab as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (NAB)

verb:  (informal, transitive) To seize, arrest or take into custody (a criminal or fugitive).
verb:  (informal, transitive) To grab or snatch something.
verb:  (Internet slang, transitive) To steal or copy another user's post.
noun:  The summit of a hill.
noun:  The cock of a gunlock.
noun:  (locksmithing) The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.
noun:  (banking) Initialism of National Australia Bank.
noun:  Initialism of National Association of Broadcasters.
noun:  (Pakistan) Abbreviation of National Accountability Bureau.
▸ Also see nab


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