Snatch

Verb

 * 1) To grasp quickly.
 * He snatched up the phone.
 * 1) To grasp and remove quickly.
 * He snatched the letter out of the secretary's hand.
 * 1) * 1922,,  Chapter 2
 * "How many times have I told you?" she cried, and seized him and snatched his stick away from him.
 * 1) To steal.
 * Someone has just snatched my purse!
 * 1) (by extension) To take a victory at the last moment.
 * 2) 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

Derived terms

 * snatcher
 * purse snatcher

Noun

 * 1) A quick grab or catch.
 * The leftfielder makes a nice snatch to end the inning.
 * 1)   A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
 * 2) A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
 * I heard a snatch of Mozart as I passed the open window.
 * 1)  A vagina.
 * 2) * 1962, Douglas Woolf, Wall to Wall, 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?
 * 1) * 1985, Jackie Collins, Lucky, 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.
 * 1) * 2008, Jim Craig, North to Disaster, 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?”

Synonyms

 * cunt, twat

Adverbs for Snatch
instantaneously; swiftly; thievingly; insolently; hurriedly; selfishly; callously; gluttonously.

Thesaurus
abduce, abduct, abduction, abstract, and, annex, apprehension, appropriate, arrest, arrestation, badger, bag, bit, blackmail, bob, boost, borrow, butt, capture, carry away, carry off, catch, catching, chip, chunk, clasp, clip, clipping, clutch, collaring, collop, cop, coup, crib, crimp, crumb, cut, cutting, defraud, deliver, desire, dollop, dragnet, embezzle, end, exact, extort, filch, flick, flip, flirt, flounce, force from, forcible seizure, fragment, get, gob, gobbet, grab, grab at, grabbing, grapple, grasp, hitch, hold, hold for ransom, hook, hunk, impress, jerk, jig, jigger, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jump at, kidnap, kidnapping, lay hold of, levy blackmail, lift, lump, make off with, modicum, moiety, morsel, nab, nabbing, nail, nip, nip up, palm, paring, particle, picking up, piece, pilfer, pinch, pluck, poach, power grab, prehension, pry loose from, purloin, rasher, remove, rend, rend from, rescue, rip, rip from, run away with, running in, rustle, sample, save, scoop, scrap, screw, scrounge, segment, seize, seizure, seizure of power, shake down, shanghai, shard, shaving, shiver, shoplift, shred, skyjack, slice, sliver, smithereen, snack, snake, snap up, snare, snatch at, snatch from, snatching, snip, snippet, snitch, specimen, spirit away, splinter, squeeze, start, steal, stitch, stump, sudden pull, swindle, swipe, take, take hold of, taking in, taking into custody, tatter, tear from, thieve, throttle, tweak, twitch, walk off with, whip up, win, wrench, wrench from, wrest, wring, wring from, yank, yerk

Verb

 * Finnish: napata


 * Russian: хватать, схватить


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 搶走, 抢走, 搶, 抢
 * Finnish: napata


 * Russian: выхватывать, выхватить


 * Dutch: afpakken, wegpikken, graaien, weggraaien
 * Finnish: näpistää, ,
 * French: attraper rapidement
 * German: ,


 * Ido: kaptar
 * Italian: scippare
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: napata


 * Italian: strappare


 * Finnish: vilkaista ; haukata ; siemaista, kulauttaa ; kopata, napata

Noun

 * Dutch: graai


 * Finnish: tempaus


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 * Portuguese:

Anagrams

 * chants
 * stanch