Green’s Dictionary of Slang

grubbies n.²

the hands.

1973		Road Test July 64/3: Then again. I can't wait to get my little grubbies on the new Civic.
1986		S. Trausch It Came from the Swamp 85: This is a city of schizoids who demand discretion in every office of public life even as they are trying to get their grubbies on the skinny and pass it around.
2003		G. Dawson My Big Old Texas Heartache 187: All those phones, they should keep their grubbies off his.
2008		M. Wernham Martin Martin’s On the Other Side 179: [S]omething he wants to see again and maybe get his fucking grubbies on before anyone else sees it.
2016		J. Frank De Evolution 🌐 ‘We just need to develop an vaccine and an antidote. But [...] about the only effective and efficient way to do that is to first get our grubbies on a decent-sized stash of A2Z's magical mystery payload’.