"grabby" is an English word, meaning "tending to quickly grab or take things." For example, you could say: "That toddler is very grabby - he always wants to play with his brother's toys!"
I'm of an age to call someone roughly other like Giggs "pop", but he more or less inhabits some highly specified area that flickers in and around hip-hop and gangsta rap and the knotty domestic deviation, grime, that added certain ragged home truths and electronically quarried sonic grit to grabby, waggish hip-hop alertness.
Don't touch your server Justin Abad, partner at Pop's SeaBar "It sounds pretty straightforward, but you'd be surprised," Abad says of grabby guests.
"Compromise" or "Settle" makes for a less grabby one-word lapel button than does "Hope," but such words capture an important aspect of Hillary's political and domestic persona — one that, in the end, may be no less persuasive and inspiring to those female voters for whom Hillary's ascent is cause for celebration.
Glom Gazingo was game, but swooning and grabby; he'd also pawed Scarlett Johansson on the red carpet.
The concept pervades: grabby name (a feeble play on words), "reclaimed" wood (one wall is papered in raw birch bark, reclaimed, presumably, from a tree), Limoges flatware, a soundtrack that could only be classified as world lounge.
(The best comeback I've heard is when a bunch of rowdy young men started hooting, whistling and getting grabby with a woman passing by in a mall who whipped around, shook her head at them scornfully, and said, "I have children as old as you are". The men slunk away in shame like schoolboys).
It's an empowerment manifesto in an era of grabby daddy-o's like Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Consider the way we tend to talk about him: he was acquisitive, not grabby; forceful, not pushy; not part of a social problem, but part of a cultural solution.
A friend of ours, for example, a veteran flight attendant, says she used to covertly squirt eye drops into the drinks of grabby or unpleasant passengers.
But through the eyes of the grabby hotelier named Clinch, one of Anna's many admirers, we see that she is a fallen angel — that staple of Victorian literature — and we're prematurely relieved when Lydia Wells offers her asylum.
Unlike at Gianinetti Ranch, here willows and barbed-wire fences kept a fisherman from much of the river, unless he waded upstream through the grabby current.
