Nab

Definition: Nab

Nab

Verb

1. Tag the base runner to get him out.

2. Take into custody, as of suspected criminals, by the police.

3. Seize suddenly.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nab" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Census

Literature

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

NAB

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Nab

Deception

Verb: deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false, bilk, cully, jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize; abuse; mystify; blind one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw dust into the eyes; dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool, bamboozle, flimflam, hornswoggle; trick.

Taking

Verb: take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one's pocket; receive; accept.

Crosswords: Nab

Manx (knoll).

Then you'll just have to distract her while I nab the pooch and make with the gore (Ginger Snaps; writing credit: Karen Walton; John Fawcett)

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Books

• International Student Bible For Catholics - Nab, The (reference)

• Market Guide / ProVestor Plus Company Report for Nat'l Australia Bank Ltd. - NAB [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Nab Catholic New Testament (reference)

• NAB Catholic Serendipity Bible (reference)

• Road to Nab End: A Lancashire Childhood (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Dave Mac Nab (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Economic History

Pakistan

The NAB Ordinance has attracted criticism for holding the accused without charge and, in some instances, access to legal counsel. (references)

Pakistan

A National Accountability Bureau (NAB), headed by an active duty military officer, is prosecuting those accused of willful default on bank loans and corrupt practices, whose conviction can result in disqualification from political office for twenty-one years. (references)

South Africa

The four key players in South Africa's advertising industry are the Association of Advertising Agencies (AAA), the Association of Marketers (ASOM), and the two major media bodies, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and the Print Media Association (PMA). (references)

Human Rights

Pakistan

Several days later, the NAB admitted that it authorized Lakhani's seizure. (references)

Pakistan

In April the Supreme Court modified several provisions of the NAB ordinance. (references)

Pakistan

Nonetheless, in May former Chief of the Naval Staff Mansoor ul-Haq was charged with corruption under the NAB ordinance. (references)

Political Economy

CANADA

Over 600 submissions have been received, including input from the U.S. National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and AOL/Time Warner. (references)

Political Rights

Pakistan

Legal observers expressed concern over the concentration of power in the NAB, the fact that NAB chairmen have all been members of the military, and the presumption of guilt in accountability cases. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Beginning with "nab": nab-led.

Ending with "nab": post-nab.

Albanian

mbërthej (brace, clasp, clench, clip, clutch, corner, do up, enchain, fasten, grip, hold, hook, hook up, make fast, paw, peg, seize, snatch), majë (aiguille, alp, apex, cusp, height, naze, Neb, needle, nib, peak, Pike, pinnacle, point, projection, Spike, spire, summit, tine, tip, tiptop, top, topping, vertex, woof), kulm (acme, apex, bloom, climax, crescendo, crisis, crown, culmination, dead, extremity, flower, heat, height, heyday, meridian, payoff, peak, pink, pinnacle, prime, summit, superlative, tiptop, top, vertex, zenith), kap (affect, apprehend, arrest, attack, avail oneself of, captivate, capture, catch, catch on, catch out, catch up, clasp, clutch, cop, embrace, gain, get, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, handle, have, hitch, hold, hook, intercept, nail, nip, nobble, overcome, overtake, pick up, pinch, reach, rummage out, seize, snap, snatch, soak up, swoop, tackle, take, track down, unhang), arrestoj (arrest, nip, pinch, run in, seize). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إعتقل (apprehend, arrest, be detained, lag, lock up, pick up, restrain, seize, sneeze). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сграбчвам (catch hold of, clutch, grab, grapple, grasp, hog, lay hold of, nip, seize, snatch, swoop), залавям (catch, intercept, run down, take), арестувам (apprehend, arrest, attach, bring in, bust, impound, nail, nip, pick up, pinch, pull, rap, restrain, round up, run in, secure, seize, take in, take up), пипвам (catch, cop, feel, grab, nail, nip, pinch, pull, rap, snag, touch). (various references)

Czech

naèapat, sebrat (compile, dig up, gather up, pick up, pouch, raise, rally, scoop up, take in, take up), sbalit (bag, nobble, pack, pack up), chòapnout (snatch), èapnout (catch). (various references)

Farsi 

قاپیدن (Grab, Grasp, Nail, Pinch, Raven, Ravish, Seize, Snap, Snatch), توقیف (Arrest, Bail, Constraint, Custody, Durante, Holdup, Internment, Lockup, Suppression), دستگیرکردن . (various references)

French

poisser, pincer (nail), harponner, épingler. (various references)

German

schnappen (catch, cope, grab, lift, Nick, pick up, snap, snatch up, spring up, swoop, whip up), erwischen (captivate, capture, catch, cop, cope, get, get hold of, grapple, make, to get hold of). (various references)

Greek 

συλλαμβάνω (apprehend, arrest, capture, catch, conceive, grasp, place under arrest, seize, take into custody). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתפוס (apprehand, catch, cop, grasp, lay hold of, occupy, seize, snatch, take). (various references)

Hungarian

sziklacsúcs (gendarme, tor), zárólemez, nyak (barrel, collar, crag, neck, scrag, shank, stud, tang), elsütő billentyű (actuator, sear). (various references)

Indonesian

menyomot (seize, snatch off), mengangkat (adopt, appoint, assign, carry, designate, doff, elevate, heave, lift, pick up, promote, raise, take up), mencuri (bone, filch, pilfer, sneak, thieve), mencomot (grab and hold, pick, snatch off), comot (dirty, filthy, grimy, seize, snatch off). (various references)

Italian

agguantare (catch, grab, snap). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

掻っ�"�う (to nab, to snatch). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かっさらう (to nab, to snatch). (various references)

Manx

greimmey (adhere, adherence, adherence of person, adhesion, attach, bite, bite off, catch, clutch, fishing tackle, grab, grasp, grip, gripping, hold, jam, lock in, monopolization, pin on, seize, seizing, snap, snatch, snatch away, snatching, stick, stitch, stitch up, tooth), feeacklaghey (grin, to bare the teeth). (various references)

Pig Latin

abnay.(various references)

Portuguese

roubar (abstract, bereave, bone, cabbage, despoil, embezzle, extort, fake, filch, grab, hold up, kidnap, loot, lurch, make away with, picaroon, pick, pirate, plunder, prig, purloin, rifle, rob, rustle, screw out of, scrounge, snitch, snoop, steal, strip, swipe, take away, thieve), prender (apprehend, arrest, attract, bind, bond, cage, capture, clip, confine, coop, cop, detain, drop behind, embay, fasten, gaol, gift, grapple, handsel, hoop, immobilize, incarcerate, jail, jug, kennel, knit, lag, link, lock in, mew, pin, prison, quod, run in, secure, seize, shut, snaffle-bit, take, take up), pegar em flagrante, furtar (cabbage, dodge, filch, prey, prig, purloin, rob, scrounge, shoplift, snoop, steal, swipe, thieve), apoderar-se de (collar, seize, take possession of), apanhar (bag, capture, catch, cop, gather, get a beating, grab, grapple, pick, pick off, pick up, reach for, rustle, seize, shovel, snatch, strike, swoop, take, take a beating, take up). (various references)

Romanian

pune mâna pe (catch hold of, get, get hold of, gripe, hook, impound, jog, land, pot, seize, seize hold of), aresta (apprehend, arrest, confine, grab, have up, lag, pinch, prison, seize, take into custody, trap), apuca (apprehend, captivate, capture, catch, clutch, comprehend, experience, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, nip, pull up, seize, snap, snatch, take), înhãţa (grab, grasp, gripe, nail, seize, take), înşfãca (get hold of, grab, grasp, gripe, nail, snap, snatch). (various references)

Russian 

схватывать (catch, caught 2, cotton on, grasp, grip), схватить (capture, catch, clutch, get, get hold of, grapple, gripe, nail, nip, seize, snap up, snatch, tackle), курок (dog, hammer), вершина (acme, apex, apices, culm, mountaintop, peak, pinnacle, root, summit, tip, top, vertex), арестовать (arrest, clap by the heels, lay by the heels, take in charge), поймать (capture, catch, catch hold of, caught 2, hunt down, land, lime, nail, pin down, snaffle bit), пик (crest, peak, spire). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uhapsiti (arrest, bust up, detain, immure, imprison, incarcerate, pick up, pinch, pull in, quod, run in), ščepati (clutch, grab, grasp, lay hold, snap, snap at, snap up, snatch, whip up). (various references)

Spanish

prender (apprehend, arrest, capture, catch, get, pin on, switch on, take, turn on), echar el guante a, coger (accept, arrest, bag, captivate, capture, catch, catch hold of, clutch, cop, develop, fetch, frig, gather, get, get hold of, go down, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, hit off, hold, hook, hunch, imbibe, land, lay hold of, lift, nail, nobble, pick, pick up, pinch, pluck, seize, take, take on, take out, take up, toss, touch, treat, trip, trip up, yank off). (various references)

Swedish

sno åt sig, rycka till sig (snatch), hugga tag i, hugga (carve, chop, cut, grab, hack, hew, seize, strike, swish), haffa (collar, cop, lag, nail, Nick, pick up, pinch, pull). (various references)

Thai

จับ (cop, seize on). (various references)

Turkish

yakalamak (account, bag, catch, catch hold of, catch up on, claw hold of, clutch, collar, cop, embrace, entrap, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, hook, intercept, nail, nobble, overtake, pinch, pull up to, seize, seize on, snap up, snatch, tackle, take, take up, trap), kapmak (catch, clutch, dispossess, grab, grasp, imbibe, poach, scoop up, seize, shut, shut in, snap up, snatch, snatch up, swoop up, twitch, whip, whip away, whip from). (various references)

Ukrainian

украсти (cop, filch, nip, nobble, pilfer, snaffle), спіймати на місці злочину, курок, гребінь гори (ridge), вершина (altitude, apex, pinnacle, spur, sublime, summit, superlative, vertex), вихопити (pull, whip out, whop), арештувати (bring up, nail, nip, nobble, put under arrest, run in, shop, take into custody), ловити (catch, hook, snap, take), пік (cusp, peak, tor), поцупити (nail, nibble, nip, pilfer, pull, scrounge, snitch, walk away, walk off, win). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "nab": nabbed, nabber, nabbers, nabbing, nabe, nabes, nabis, nabob, naboberies, nabobery, nabobess, nabobesses, nabobish, nabobism, nabobisms, nabobs, nabs. (additional references)

Words containing "nab": abominable, abominably, actionable, actionably, agglutinabilities, agglutinability, agglutinable, alienabilities, alienability, alienable, amenabilities, amenability, amenable, amenably, anabaena, anabaenas, anabaptism, anabaptisms, anabas, anabases, anabasis, anabatic, anableps, anablepses, anabolic, anabolism, anabolisms, antifashionable, apportionable, ascertainable, assignabilities, assignability, assignable, atonable, attainabilities, attainability, attainable, burnable, burnables, cannabic, cannabin, cannabinoid, cannabinoids, cannabinol, cannabinols, cannabins, cannabis, cannabises, chinaberries, chinaberry, cinnabar. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Nab" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anb, anbd, anby, cnib, eab, gnab, gnib, Iab, kab, Knab, Mabb, n'a, naa, naaa, naam, Naba, Nabaa, nabd, Nabe, Nabn, nabo, nabt, Naby, nac, naf, Nahbo, nai, n'ai, naib, naj, nak, nal, nalb, namby, nao, naq, narb, nau, nav, naw, nax, Naz, nba, Nbaa, nbr, Nby, Ncbi, ndb, nebb, Nebi, neeb, neib, nerb, Nesb, Ngarba, Nha, nhao, niba, nibb, nibe, nibi, nibo, ni-br, nibt, Nikb, nilb, niob, nirb, nitb, Njau, Nka, nlab, nlba, nma, noab, nobb, Nobq, Nobu, Nqaba, Ntaba, nuba, nuby, nueb, nurb, snabb, vab, yab, zab. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ban.

-1 letter: ab, an, ba, na.

+1 letter: band, bane, bang, bani, bank, bans, barn, bean, bran, nabe, nabs.

+2 letters: aboon, bacon, bairn, banal, banco, bands, bandy, baned, banes, bangs, banjo, banks, banns, banty, barns, barny, baron, basin, baton, beano, beans, began, bhang, binal, blain, bland, blank, blawn, bogan, brain, brand, brank, brans, brant, brawn, bunya, buran, bwana, cabin, goban, nabes, nabis, nabob, nawab, nubia, sabin, tabun, unban, unbar, urban.