"grab off" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: grabs off [present, singular, third-person], grabbing off [participle, present], grabbed off [participle, past], grabbed off [past]
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  1. To hurriedly and forcibly take, appropriate or seize control of; to arrest (someone).
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