Screengrab

Basically a screenshot, but for people who aren't current with technology.

Mom: Look honey, I learned how to take a screengrab!
Daughter: mom it's called a screenshot

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screengrab

(n.) -- An image taken from a computer screen or homepage and duplicating it on a newspaper or magazine page (grabbing the image from the screen)

"That YouTube video image in the newspaper today was a screengrab, that's how the editors got it, off the computer screen."

-- overheard in a newsroom at a newspaper in New York, July 3, 1999

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