noun
1. : a bag or other receptacle holding small articles which are to be drawn (as at a party or fair) without being seen often on payment of a small sum
2. : something resembling a grab bag: as
a. : something providing a miscellany of often choice items
a grab bag of miscellaneous specimens, some of which may catch the reader's fancy — Dwight MacDonald
the revue … is a cornucopia, a grab bag, a hash — Wolcott Gibbs
the grab bag of good and bad that goes into the making of a happy and lasting marriage — Mollie Panter-Downes
b. : an assemblage or collection of often valuable things from which one may take or appropriate whatever he can grab
reversing the public purse into a private grab bag — J.R.Aswell & E.J.Michelson