screengrab

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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.
    • 2025 May 22, “Trump’s evidence of South Africa ‘white genocide’ contains images from Democratic Republic of Congo”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      The picture accompanying the article was in fact a screengrab of a video published by Reuters on 3 February and subsequently verified by the news agency’s fact check team, showing humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma. The image was pulled from Reuters footage shot after deadly battles with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels.

Verb

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

  1. (computing) To generate a screenshot.

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