It was standard-issue junk science: a grabby idea, a statistically significant p-value extracted from noisy data, and big claims. As a lover of words, I was su

It was standard-issue junk science: a grabby idea, a statistically significant p-value extracted from noisy data, and big claims. As a lover of words, I was surprised to encounter the word "grabby", which I don't recall having heard before. According to one of my Oxford dictionaries (not the OED) it means greedy or grasping. I wonder if the author is subtly extending its meaning to specifically mean "grasping at straws".