cash grab

noun

plural cash grabs
: the greedy pursuit of an opportunity for making money especially when done without regard for ethics, concerns, or consequences : money grab
Some Republican leaders have also said any attempt to undo the state's flat tax amounts to a cash grab.Steve LeBlanc
… money generated by single-use plastic going onto the market is being swallowed up in a cash grab … with little or no accountability or strategy underpinning it.Adam Leyland
also : something (such as a product or service) used for a cash grab
HBO announced a new Harry Potter TV series, and it is an obvious cash grab that is insulting to true fans. Victor Lana
But is it good enough to satisfy discerning taco-loving hipsters or is it simply a shameless, cultural appropriating cash grab? Joey Morona
It might be more feasible to just give up on college football being anything but a soulless cash grabDavid Schraub

Examples of cash grab in a Sentence

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When it was announced, the idea of a Bumblebee movie felt like a cynical cash grab. Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024 Inside the absurd, surprisingly profound new ‘Housewives’ Nov. 18, 2020 Reality TV can be a lot of things — a bid for attention, a cash grab. Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024 Building up extensive infrastructure or long-term investment plans creates a conflict of interest, at best, and at worst betrays the expectation or resignation that the practices will continue indefinitely—and these taxes are merely a cash grab. Andrew Leahey, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024 There have been some truly awful cash grabs in the world of crypto games, but this doesn’t sound like one, and most importantly, there is a fun, entirely free to play, game beneath it, with the blockchain stuff seemingly coming as a totally optional extra. Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024 On stage Saturday at Riot Fest, Pavement sounded reinvigorated, sharing an entertaining rapport which sounded more like a functioning band and less like a group making the festival circuit cash grab. Jim Ryan, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1922, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of cash grab was in 1922

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“Cash grab.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cash%20grab. Accessed 12 Nov. 2024.

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