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snatch
English
- 🔊 a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted overhead in one rapid motion
- 🔊 a small fragment“overheard snatches of their conversation”
- 🔊 (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment
- 🔊 the act of catching an object with the hands“Mays made the catch with his back to the plate”
- 🔊 obscene terms for female genitals
- 🔊 to make grasping motions“the cat snatched at the butterflies”
- 🔊 to grasp hastily or eagerly“Before I could stop him the dog snatched the ham bone”
- 🔊 take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom“The industrialist's son was kidnapped”
Spanish
- 🔊 arrancada snatch
- 🔊 arranque snatch
- 🔊 arrebatar to snatch, wrest
- 🔊 higo snatch, pussy (vagina)
- 🔊 rebatar to snatch, to take violently
- 🔊 arrapar to snatch, steal in one stroke
- 🔊 tirón snatch, snatching (a quick violent robbery of a person by snatching their purse, usually in a public place)