Snatch
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Verb
Snatch (third-person singular simple present snatches, present participle snatching, simple past and past participle snatched)
- To grasp quickly.
- He snatched up the phone.
- To grasp and remove quickly.
- He snatched the letter out of the secretary's hand.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf , Jacob's Room Chapter 2
- "How many times have I told you?" she cried, and seized him and snatched his stick away from him.
- To steal.
- Someone has just snatched my purse!
- (by extension) To take a victory at the last moment.
- To do something quickly due to limited time available.
- He snatched a sandwich before catching the train.
- He snatched a look at her while her mother had her back turned.
Synonyms
- grab
- See WikiSaurus:steal
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Noun
Snatch (plural Snatches)- A quick grab or catch.
- The leftfielder makes a nice snatch to end the inning.
- (weightlifting) A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
- A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
- I heard a snatch of Mozart as I passed the open window.
- (vulgar slang) A vagina.
- 1962, Douglas Woolf, Wall to Wall,[1] Grove Press, page 83,
- Claude, is it true what they say about Olovia? Of course she’s getting a little old for us—what about Marilyum, did you try her snatch?
- 1985, Jackie Collins, Lucky,[2] Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0671524933, page 150,
- Roughly Santino ripped the sheet from the bed, exposing all of her. She had blond hair on her snatch, which drove him crazy. He was partial to blondes.
- 2008, Jim Craig, North to Disaster,[3] Bushak Press, ISBN 0961711213, page 178,
- “ […] You want me to ask Brandy to let you paint her naked body with all this gooey stuff to make a mold of her snatch?”
- 1962, Douglas Woolf, Wall to Wall,[1] Grove Press, page 83,
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Adverbs for Snatch
instantaneously; swiftly; thievingly; insolently; hurriedly; selfishly; callously; gluttonously.
Thesaurus
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