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Nab

verb

(past & past part. nabbed; pres. part. nabbing)

Tag the base runner to get him out.

Take into custody. Synonyms: apprehend, arrest, collar, cop, nail, pick up.

Seize suddenly.

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"Nab" Quotes from Famous Books

... feel like nabbing her and turning her over to the officers. We might not be able to nab her, anyway." ...

— Frank Merriwell's Bravery • Burt L. Standish

... muffled up his anger pretty well, He said, "I have a notion, and that notion I will tell; I will nab this gay young sorter, terrify him into fits, And get my gentle wife to chop him ...

— A Nonsense Anthology • Collected by Carolyn Wells

... want to go for? If you've made up yer mind to come along of me, just stay where you are. If you go home they'll nab you and whack you for staying out late, and lock you up, and you'll not be able to get out in time in the morning. And I ain't a-going to wait for yer, I ...

— The Fortunate Youth • William J. Locke

... Look here, 'tain't the clean pertater, is it, for a superintendent t' lay into a chap at Sunday School for things what he done outside? S'pose I float Tinribs's puddlin' tub down the creek by accident, with Doon's baby in it when I ain't thinkin', is it square fer him to nab me in Sunday School, an' whack me fer it, pretendin' all the time it's 'cause I stuck ...

— The Gold-Stealers - A Story of Waddy • Edward Dyson

... "Nab!" to Mohammed it is in the peculiar sense of "prophet" ({Greek})one who speaks before the people, not one who predicts, as such foresight was adjured by the Apostle. Dr. A. Neubauer (The Athenum No. 3031) finds the root of "Nab!" in the Assyrian Nabu and Heb. Noob (occurring in Exod. vii. ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 9 • Richard F. Burton

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