grab bag
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.33 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A gift, purchase, etc. whose contents are concealed until after a selection is made; a bag as gift that comprises mystery prizes.
noun
Example Sentences
- "Winners can choose a gift from the grab bags on the table."
- "With that system, it's a grab bag which files we can find at any moment."
- "There were now a grab bag of southern country-rock units with a new wrinkle—Black Oak Arkansas, for one, combined psychedelia, fifties rock, Hindu spiritualism, and gospel into “psycho-boogie,” or “raunch 'n' roll.”"
- "There was no location, really — most of the convention took place in a Milwaukee of the mind. […] Instead, the teleconvention kept a few standards (like the Bruce Springsteen–soundtracked montage) and borrowed from a grab bag of other TV formats, from talk show to cable news to reality-TV reunion special."
- "While this piece is less scattered than Hearne’s most recent major work, “Place,” a deeply personal reflection on gentrification, “Farming,” too, feels like a grab bag into which there’s always assumed to be room for yet one more idea."