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 grab …

—David Schraub

Examples of cash grab in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Yet within the corridors of power at UEFA, it is more often perceived as a power and cash grab that will detract from its own money-making potential and disrupt Europe’s hegemony. —Adam Crafton, New York Times, 21 May 2025

What this cash grab will do, of course, is give consumers who were looking for a reason to cut the cable cord a final reason to do so. —Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 24 June 2025

And what better opportunity to air grievances than the All-Star break, a soulless cash grab where no one involved seems to actually want to be there. —Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2025

All of this—combined with the staggered rollout schedule, synchronized merch drops, and albums’ vinyl variations—contributed to the feeling that the rerecordings had gone from a feminist crusade to a capitalist cash grab. —Tyler Foggatt, New Yorker, 8 June 2025

Several Major League Soccer (MLS) players from the three competing teams—Seattle Sounders, Inter Miami, and Los Angeles FC—perceive this year’s tournament as a ‘cash grab’ for the league. —Mark Lasota, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025

Harry and Meghan could take a cash grab of Princess Diana’s legacy. —Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 4 June 2025

The film follows Baryshnikov as Margarita, an ambitious fashion designer who lives in a chaotic West Hollywood apartment with her Russian-Jewish family and enters a reality TV competition show called Slay, Serve, Survive in a desperate cash grab. —Justin Kroll, Deadline, 4 June 2025

Recreating a movie by utilizing the same characters, plotting, fantastical elements, and title is the textbook definition of a cynical Hollywood cash grab. —Chris Lee, Vulture, 27 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1922, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for cash grab

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