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Nabbed

Nab \Nab\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nabbed (n[a^]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. Nabbing.] [Dan nappe, or Sw. nappa.]

  1. To catch or seize suddenly or unexpectedly. [Colloq.]
    --Smollett.

  2. To capture; to arrest; as, the police nabbed the culprit wtrying to hide in the basement.

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nabbed

vb. (en-pastnab)

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nabbed

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nab
  1. v. tag the base runner to get him out

  2. take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected criminals" [syn: collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, cop]

  3. seize suddenly

  4. [also: nabbing, nabbed]

Wikipedia
Nabbed (TV series)

Nabbed is a New Zealand reality television show, produced with the assistance of the New Zealand Police Traffic Division for Television New Zealand's TV2. The show profiles and follows the work of traffic police officers in their patrols and other police duties.

Usage examples of "nabbed".

To present for examination papers obviously long out of date was to ask to be nabbed on the spot.

Hugh nabbed her, shoved her inside and booted her heartily with his foot.

He had his laser gun infantry to supervise--six men with captured weapons on day we nabbed warden, now eight hundred scattered all through Luna and armed with Kongville monkey copies.

They knew just where in the Labyrinth he'd have to pass, and, most of all, they knew it was us just twenty minutes or so after we nabbed him.

I noticed he let me do all that damned work for him downstairs before he nabbed me.