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Definition of Nabbed
1. nab [v] - See also: nab
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nabbed
| naa naam naams naan naans naartje naartjes naartjie naat naats | nab nabal nabalamprophyllite nabaphite nabbed (current term) nabber nabbers nabbing nabe nabes | nabesite nabiasite nabilone nabis nabks nabla nablas nablock |
Literary usage of Nabbed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"Our Suffolk heir is nabbed, for a small business ; and I must find him some ...
They embraced the prisoner . . . and asked how long she had been nabbed, ..."
2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1906)
"Fairly nabbed ! " are the words I said, as 1 lifted my head out of the water,
... I was nabbed. "You'll come along, you?" I was asked none too politely. ..."
3. Three Years in a Man-trap by Timothy Shay Arthur (1872)
"nabbed in a cock-pit and sent down below," was said to him in an undertone. ...
Tom Lloyd's son nabbed in a cockpit !" droned on the old man, talking partly ..."
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