Usually means: Seize something quickly with hand.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word Grab:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. grab: Merriam-Webster
  2. grab: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grab, grab: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grab: Collins English Dictionary
  5. grab: Vocabulary.com
  6. GraB, Grab, grab, graB: Wordnik
  7. grab: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. grab: Wiktionary
  9. grab: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. grab: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. grab: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Grab, grab: Dictionary.com
  13. grab: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. grab: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Grab (Trebinje), Grab (application), Grab (company), Grab (magazine), Grab (peak), Grab (ship), Grab (software), Grab (tool), Grab: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Grab: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. grab: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. grab: Rhymezone
  19. Grab (nt), grab: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. grab: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Grab: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. grab: FreeDictionary.org
  23. grab: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. grab: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. grab: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. grab: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Grab (disambiguation), grab: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Grab (disambiguation), grab: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. GRAB: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. grab: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. grab, grab, grab: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. grab: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Snowboarding Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Grab: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See grabbed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Grab)

verb:  (transitive) To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).
verb:  To restrain someone; to arrest.
verb:  (transitive) To grip the attention of; to enthrall or interest.
verb:  (informal) To quickly collect, retrieve, or take.
verb:  (informal) To consume something quickly.
verb:  To take the opportunity of.
noun:  (countable) A sudden snatch at something.
noun:  (countable) An acquisition by violent or unjust means.
noun:  (countable) A mechanical device that grabs or clutches.
noun:  A device for withdrawing drills, etc., from artesian and other wells that are drilled, bored, or driven.
noun:  (countable, media) A sound bite.
noun:  (obsolete) That which is seized.
noun:  (uncountable) A simple card game.
noun:  A two- or three-masted vessel used on the Malabar coast.
noun:  A Singaporean company which provides taxi rides and food deliveries, and provides a system of electronic payments.
noun:  The electronic mobile app of the same name that provides these services.
noun:  (Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, informal) A taxi ride booked through the Grab app.

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