Definition/Meaning of snatch

• English - Verb: snatch (third-person singular simple present snatches, present participle snatching, simple past and past participle snatched) (transitive) To grasp and remove quickly. He snatched up the phone. She snatched the letter out of the secretary's hand. (intransitive) To attempt to seize something suddenly. to snatch at a rope (transitive) To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or…
• English - Noun: snatch (plural snatches) A quick grab or catch . The leftfielder makes a nice snatch to end the inning. 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard: And he […] glared on the cold pistols that hung before him—ready for anything. And he took down one with a snatch and weighed it in his hand, and fell to thinking again; […] A short period . 1927 August, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “[Ariel…
• English - Anagrams: chants stanch
• English - Etymology: From Middle English snacchen , snecchen (“to snap; seize”), from Old English *snæċċan, *sneċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *snakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *snakjaną (“to whiff, sniff, catch wind of; to taste-test, nibble”), related to Proto-Germanic *snakōną (“to breathe, blow, sigh”) and *snakkōną (“to blather, jabber, chatter”). Cognate with Middle Dutch snacken (“to snap [of a dog]”), Norwegian…
• English - Pronunciation: IPA: /snæt͡ʃ/ Rhymes: -ætʃ