to grab dinner
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2.5
- phrasal verb
- Informal
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- Let's grab dinner together after the meeting to discuss our plans.
- wanna grab dinner
- want to grab dinner
- go grab dinner
And then one Sunday he's like, can you come up, Let's grab dinner?
- And then one Sunday he's like, can you come up, Let's grab dinner?
- And then we're going to go grab an early dinner.
- And now we're just hanging out at the hotel, grabbing some dinner before heading to the airport for an overnight red eye.
- It's my dad's birthday and we got to go get grab some dinner with them.
- So I think I'm gonna go grab some dinner and not sleep even though I want to a lot.
Examples
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Why don't we grab dinner later and go over what's going to happen with the Meroux?
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We decided to grab dinner out.
Blog text (6) -
Do you want to go grab some dinner?
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Would you want to grab dinner, maybe?
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Hey, Guy, what do you say we grab some dinner tonight?
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You want to grab dinner later?
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Do you wanna grab dinner?
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Say, how about you and I grab a little dinner and a show after work?
Fiction book (1994) -
Let's go grab some dinner.
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I stopped at a diner to grab some dinner.
Blog text (21)
Synonyms
100
1.3
To eat the main meal of the day, often with other people
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2.9
Eat a quick meal when you are busy or in a hurry
Antonyms
How Quickly
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'grab dinner' is a straightforward colloquial extension of 'grab' (to seize/get quickly) plus 'dinner' (the evening meal); a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer it means to get or eat dinner quickly or informally. The pattern 'grab + meal' is common in English and has clear compositional logic, making the meaning predictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Grab dinner comes from the image of quickly taking food on the go: to grab something is to take it fast, and dinner is the evening meal. That's why it means 'to eat dinner quickly or casually, often without formal planning'.