To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch.
I grabbed her hand to pull her back from the cliff edge.
To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something).
The suspect suddenly broke free and grabbed at the policeman's gun.
To restrain someone; to arrest.
From Middle Dutch grabben or Middle Low German grabben (“to grasp, grab, seize, snatch”), from Old Saxon gravan, from Proto-West Germanic *grabbōn, a secondary form of Proto-Germanic *grabōną (“to gat...
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A taxi ride booked through the Grab app.
I will take a Grab back home. ("I will book a taxi ride from Grab to return home.")