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nab

Pronunciation: /næb/

The English word “nab” has 6 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To seize, arrest or take into custody (a criminal or fugitive).
  2. To grab or snatch something.
  3. To steal or copy another user's post.

noun

  1. The summit of a hill.
  2. The cock of a gunlock.
  3. The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.

Etymology

From dialectal nap (“to seize, lay hold of”), probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Swedish nappa (“to pluck, pinch”). Related to Danish nappe (“to tweak, snatch at, catch, seize”), Swedish nappa (“to take, grab, pinch”), Norwegian Bokmål nappe (“to grab, snatch, pluck, yank”).

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