up for grabs

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up for grabs

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  1. idiomatic, informal Available for anyone to obtain, claim, decide, or win. Gandhi today is up for grabs. He has become abstract, ahistorical, postmodern, no longer a man in and of his time but a freeloading concept.

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prep_phrase available for anyone to obtain, claim, decide, or win

中文未定之天
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@misc{up_for_grabs_2026,
  title = {up for grabs},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/up%20for%20grabs},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}