Usually means: Quickly grab something with force.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. snatch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. snatch: Merriam-Webster
  3. snatch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. snatch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. snatch: Collins English Dictionary
  6. snatch: Vocabulary.com
  7. snatch: Wordnik
  8. snatch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. snatch: Wiktionary
  10. snatch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. snatch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. snatch: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. snatch: Dictionary.com
  14. snatch (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. snatch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Snatch (TV series), Snatch (disambiguation), Snatch (film), Snatch (movie), Snatch (weightlifting), Snatch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Snatch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. snatch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. snatch: Rhymezone
  20. snatch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. snatch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SNATCH: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. snatch: FreeDictionary.org
  24. snatch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. snatch: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. snatch: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snatch: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snatch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snatch: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snatch: Idioms

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. snatch, snatch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. snatch: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Snatch, The Snatch: Urban Dictionary
  6. Snatch: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See snatched as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To grasp and remove quickly.
verb:  (intransitive) To attempt to seize something suddenly.
verb:  (transitive) To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To steal.
verb:  (transitive, informal, figurative, by extension) To take (a victory) at the last moment.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To do something quickly in the limited time available.
noun:  A quick grab or catch.
noun:  A short period.
noun:  (weightlifting) A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
noun:  A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
noun:  (vulgar slang) The vulva.
noun:  (aviation) Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
noun:  (dated) A brief period of exertion.
noun:  (dated) A catching of the voice.
noun:  (dated) A hasty snack; a bite to eat.
noun:  (dated) A quibble.

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