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a. (context idiomatic English) available for anyone to obtain, claim, decide, or win.
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Up for Grabs may refer to:
- Up for Grabs (play), a play by David Williamson
- Up for Grabs (film), a 2004 comedic documentary
- Up For Grabs (board game), a variation of Anagrams, a word game played with letter tiles
- Up for Grabs...Live, an album by Spin Doctors
- Up for Grabs (video game), a game developed by Don Priestley for the ZX Spectrum
Up For Grabs (2000) is a play by Australian playwright David Williamson.
Set in the booming international art market from 1990, which was fuelled by the dot com boom, it involves scenes of an alternate sexual nature. Not seen critically as one of Williamson strongest plays, it is a play of bad manners, an analysis of how wealth and power can corrupt the arts.
The London West End theatre version saw Madonna, billed as 'Madonna Ritchie', starring on stage for the third time in her career, to overall poor critical review of her technical ability and was even described as "the evening's biggest disappointment" by one.
Up for Grabs is a 2004 comedic documentary about two men who fought over custody of a baseball. It was directed and produced by Michael Wranovics, co-produced by Michael Lindenberger and Josh Keppel, co-edited by Dave Ciaccio; the executive producers were Dr. Roger Petrie, Helen Woo, and Christopher Parry.
Usage examples of "up for grabs".
She has been abandoned by her crew, which means that according to the traditions of maritime law, she is up for grabs.
Everyone who is anyone knows everyone, but there are so many incomers diluting the mix and not knowing that there is a small world network here that everything is up for grabs again after only a couple of megaseconds.
A whole industry would be up for grabs -- not to mention the fate of The Family -- and the bizarre scenes of chaos and wild scrambling for position that had followed Spinks' first shocking upset would not be repeated if Ali lost the rematch.