"up for grabs" meaning in All languages combined

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Prepositional phrase [English]

Audio: En-au-up for grabs.ogg
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  1. (idiomatic, informal) Available for anyone to obtain, claim, decide, or win. Tags: idiomatic, informal Translations (available for anyone to obtain, claim, decide, or win): 未定之天 (Chinese Mandarin), te grabbel (Dutch), vrij beschikbaar (Dutch), vapaata riistaa (Finnish), libre (French), frei verfügbar (German), zu haben (German), szabad préda (Hungarian), aki kapja, marja (Hungarian)
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          "sense": "available for anyone to obtain, claim, decide, or win",
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          "word": "szabad préda"
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