Meaning

1 senses

  1. One who snatches, or steals by snatching.

More definitions
  • a thief who grabs and runs
  • someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)

Examples

6 sentences

  1. A big city is full of snatchers.

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  2. The young snatcher wasn't spotted by the police again.

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  3. Watch out for purse-snatchers.

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  4. Her boyfriend was a snatcher.

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  5. The purse snatcher was frantically struggling to get away from me while I had him pinned down.

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Forms

plural: snatchers
Singularsnatcher
Pluralsnatchers

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom):kidnapperkidnaperabductor

Word family

5 related words
Relatedsnatch
Derivedbaby-snatcherbag snatcherbody snatcherpurse snatcher

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
snarlsnatchsneakB2sneaker

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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