0 a bag or container containing a mixture of small objects such as toys, often to be taken out without being seen, as a game :
1 any mixed collection of things, some of which may not be very attractive or useful:
To make a chance device you could toss coins, throw dice, or take slips of paper from a grab bag.
The company surveyed three thousand young women, rewarding each with a grab bag of cosmetic gifts.
They don't pray or say grace at the dinner table but they do exchange gifts in a grab bag.
This may sound like too much of an artistic grab bag, but the artist binds these disparate influences with a unified vision.
His latest film is a grab bag of ideas that don't stick with you because they don't stick together.
At the time, the corporation was a messy grab bag of industrial and retail companies.
Her approach is not entirely unproblematic, drawing as it does upon a grab bag of psychological, sociological and aesthetic theory.
This is not merely a grab bag of chapters organized after the fact from among an array of speakers that responded to a call for papers.
