to grab lunch
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2.6
- phrasal verb
- Informal
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- Do you want to grab lunch before the meeting starts?
- Let's grab lunch
- go grab lunch
- want to grab lunch
Today's Thursday I am going to grab lunch with a friend we've never met in person.
- Today's Thursday I am going to grab lunch with a friend we've never met in person.
- Let's let's like grab lunch or something sometime.
- And she goes, oh, I, I'm busy most nights, but I can grab lunch.
Examples
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You wanna grab some lunch with me?
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Oh my gosh, just running out to go grab lunch before my next meeting.
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You want to grab lunch and talk about it?
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No, I was just about to grab lunch.
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Hey, do you want to grab some lunch?
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Then we go grab some lunch together.
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Now let's grab some lunch.
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Let's grab lunch this week.
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We're gonna grab lunch.
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We'll grab some lunch.
Synonyms
30
2.9
Eat a quick meal when you are busy or in a hurry
3
1.4
To get and eat a sandwich quickly as a simple meal
Antonyms
How Quickly
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to have lunch quickly or informally' is directly derivable from combining 'grab' (to take or get quickly) with 'lunch' (midday meal); the action implied is simply taking/doing the meal in a quick or casual way. This verb + noun composition and the use of 'grab' to mean 'get quickly' with food items is common in English and parallels constructions in other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Grab lunch comes from the image of quickly taking food with your hand, as if you grab a sandwich or a quick bite rather than sitting for a long meal. So it means 'to have lunch quickly or informally'.