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Definition of Nabbing
1. nab [v] - See also: nab
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nabbing
Literary usage of Nabbing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Birds of North Americaby Jim Roetzel by Jim Roetzel (2007)
"A downward-curved bill aids in nabbing sea life and insects. The male's eye-catching
mating plumage includes a dark tuft; an iridescent black, green, ..."
2. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"nabbing, grabbing all for himself. 1833. MARRYAT, Peter Simple, i., x. Well,
cried she, they've ... nabbing-CULL, subs. (old).—A bailiff ; a constable. ..."
3. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1887)
"They came near nabbing me at the half-circle." The other answered: " I saw them.
I bolted, bolted, bolted ! " Through this repulsive slang, ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"... saying that a woodpecker "has the habit of soaring out into the air and nabbing
insects on the wing" (page 162), or writing of pipits that "their ..."
5. Birds of North Americaby Jim Roetzel by Jim Roetzel (2007)
"A downward-curved bill aids in nabbing sea life and insects. The male's eye-catching
mating plumage includes a dark tuft; an iridescent black, green, ..."
6. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"nabbing, grabbing all for himself. 1833. MARRYAT, Peter Simple, i., x. Well,
cried she, they've ... nabbing-CULL, subs. (old).—A bailiff ; a constable. ..."
7. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1887)
"They came near nabbing me at the half-circle." The other answered: " I saw them.
I bolted, bolted, bolted ! " Through this repulsive slang, ..."
8. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"... saying that a woodpecker "has the habit of soaring out into the air and nabbing
insects on the wing" (page 162), or writing of pipits that "their ..."
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