nab

Meanings

Verb

• To seize, arrest or take into custody (a criminal or fugitive).
• To grab or snatch something.

Noun

• The summit of a hill.
• The cock of a gunlock.
• The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.

Related

Similar words

• nick, bust, cop

Origin

• From dialectal nap, probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Swedish nappa ("to pluck, pinch").
• Related to Danish nappe ("to tweak, snatch at, catch, seize"), Swedish nappa ("to take, grab, pinch"), Norwegian Bokmål nappe ("to grab, snatch, pluck, yank").
• Compare knap, knop, knob.