Meaning of cash-grabby | Babel Free

Definitions

Resembling or characteristic of a cash grab.

informal

Examples

“Then there was the more obviously cash-grabby variety: the effective remake, which simply took everything that worked before and did it over — perhaps with the same characters (Jaws 2), perhaps with new ones (Beyond The Poseidon Adventure).”

“Summoners War represents the greedier and more^([sic]) cash-grabbier side of gacha gaming. This game demands in-game purchases for any real progression and the top guilds allegedly force guildmates into spending thousands of dollars.”

“Either we do something that allows you to record your own narration and ding, in which case we worry group movie viewings would be ruined by fans of ours using the app when it’s not wanted … or we would do something lame and cash-grabby that doesn’t represent what we’re about.”

“Those ancient red boats, with their beautiful carved swans on each side, circled around a murky pond in the middle of the Public Garden. I’d lived in the city for over a decade and never once ridden them, because, well, who on earth actually did any of the cash-grabby, touristy things in their own city?”

“The game is still a bit cash-grabby when it shows off extra cars that take real money to buy through the eShop, but the in-game rewards are more than generous and I never felt pressured to have to buy a more powerful vehicle in order to succeed.”

“The city has told me the average fine for a ticket camera infraction is $107.32. […] Across all 150 cameras in the city, the maximum cash-grabbiest approach could literally generate billions of dollars — enough to finance a new subway line, spruce up every park in the city and maybe even install a giant solid gold raccoon statue at the foot of Yonge Street.”

“One benefit of having a Stephen King universe that can nearly compete with the Marvel Cinematic Universe in terms of scope and adaptations, if not success and theme park attractions, is that even the most^([sic]) cash-grabbiest idea, like a prequel show to the popular, monosyllabic film series It, doesn’t raise too many eyebrows.”

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