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[ drag-net ] / ˈdrægˌnɛt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR dragnet ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna net to be drawn along the bottom of a river, pond, etc., or along the ground, to catch fish, small game, etc. a system or network for finding or catching someone, as a criminal wanted by the police. Origin of dragnetMiddle English word dating back to 1535–45; see origin at drag, net1, dray Words nearby dragnetdrag king, draglift, dragline, dragline crane, drag link, dragnet, Drago, dragoman, dragon, dragon beam, drag one's ass Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for dragnetA new book “Dragnet Nation” asks hard questions about our online lives. They Want to Know Everything About You|Jake Whitney|March 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST There are stretches in Dragnet Nation that are too obviously designed to scare, and parts feel paranoid. They Want to Know Everything About You|Jake Whitney|March 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST As Julia Angwin notes in her new book, Dragnet Nation, the watershed year for tracking was 2001. They Want to Know Everything About You|Jake Whitney|March 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST They were arrested at Cairo's Ramses Square on August 16, caught up in the dragnet of a mass arrest carried out by the military. Interview With Canadian Filmmaker John Greyson Following His Release from Cairo's Tora Prison|Jesse Rosenfeld|October 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But despite their successes, Aykroyd and Hanks' rap duet at the end of their 1987 film Dragnet was not exactly a plus. Harry Potter Hip-Hop|Jaimie Etkin|July 13, 2011|DAILY BEAST He had thrown out a dragnet of detectives and every suspicious character in the city was passing through it or landing in prison. The Southerner|Thomas Dixon "Mascola ran across our trammels this morning with a dragnet," the girl explained. The Indulgence was a dragnet, drawing large hauls of hungry fish, and leaving them to squirm on the shores of sinful compromises. Sketches of the Covenanters|J. C. McFeeters Our luck is like water in a dragnet: you pull at it and it bulges, but when you've drawn it out it's empty! War and Peace|Leo Tolstoy Their idea of hunting for a workman is to dragnet the back rooms of saloons—especially if they're after a Socialist. The Air Trust|George Allan England
British Dictionary definitions for dragnet
nouna heavy or weighted net used to scour the bottom of a pond, river, etc, as when searching for something any system of coordinated efforts by police forces to track down wanted persons Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to dragnetsearch, pursuit, chase, all points bulletin |