nab

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to catch or seize suddenly, especially a wrongdoer

   Police managed to nab the pickpocket before he fled the station.

First recorded in the late 17th century, perhaps from a Scandinavian source (compare Norwegian and Swedish dialect nappa, 'to catch, snatch'); related to nap in the sense of seizing.

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