Pennold went this morning to old Loui the grabber and tried to borrow money from him, but didn't get it.
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
The old lady in the boarding house may be tight and a grabber, I do not doubt it, but she is a woman who tells no lie.
"Botchan (Master Darling)"
Mr. Kin-nosuke Natsume, trans. by Yasotaro Morri
There were men in Egypt-men whose reverses had put them in a particularly ugly mood-who said out loud in places where Britt could not hear them that the money-grabber could not get much more than twelve-per-cent blood out of the nag he had ridden for so long, and might as well set knife to neck and put the town out of its misery.
"When Egypt Went Broke"
Holman Day