nab at

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Police in Alabama used the irresistible lure of free tickets to this year's Alabama-Auburn football game to nab at least a dozen child-support deadbeats with a combined $270,000 in outstanding payments.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 8, 2011

Half nab, at a venture, unsight, unseen, hit or miss.

From The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew King of the Beggars; containing his Life, a Dictionary of the Cant Language, and many Entertaining Particulars of that Extraordinary Man by Unknown