screengrab

English

Alternative forms

• screen grab

Etymology

From screen +‎ grab.

Noun

screengrab (plural screengrabs)

1. (computing) A screenshot.
   • 2019 November 20, Daniel Puddicombe, “Should Transport for London take over suburban services?”, in Rail, page 34:

     "Let's boot out @GNRailUK and bring in @TfL to run our line," he tweeted later that year on June 25, sharing a screengrab of the latter's proposals.

Verb

screengrab (third-person singular simple present screengrabs, present participle screengrabbing, simple past and past participle screengrabbed)

1. (computing) To generate a screenshot.

References

• “screen grab”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• green crabs