grab bag

1. 1.

   an assortment of miscellaneous items

   Broaderassortment
2. 2.

   a container from which a person draws a wrapped item at random without knowing the contents

   Broadercontainer

Questions about grab bag

What does grab bag mean?

grab bag means "an assortment of miscellaneous items". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is grab bag a common word?

grab bag is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.