snatch

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"Make your choice, my child," she added with a meaning laugh and moved away, humming a snatch from a French chanson which brought the hot blood to Kirkwood's face But the girl did not understand; and he was glad of that.

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  1. transitive verb To grasp or seize hastily, eagerly, or suddenly.
  2. transitive verb Sports To raise (a weight) in one quick, uninterrupted motion from the floor to a position over the lifter's head.
  3. transitive verb To grasp or seize illicitly.
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  • The snatch was all they had been hired to pull Doc had suspected that was the reason. —  094 - The Men Vanished
  • In fact, just a few weeks before, he'd botched the Reptile's scheme for a snatch-and-grab jewelry heist at Target because he forgot to provide the preplanned distraction—a bogus vet-off-his-meds freakout in Housewares—after he became hypnotized by a demonstration video for the George Foreman Grill. —  EQMM,January2006
  • The thrill of the snatch, the euphoria of easy money. —  ARTEMIS FOWL is a child prodigy from Ireland who has dedicated his brilliant mind to criminal activities
  • She recalled a snatch of a song, about a young man finding letters and reading them aloud. —  EQMM,July2008
  • Another snatch, and her ragged underpants were torn off. —  Dragon's Gold
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cadence ·  lilt ·  snippet ·  outburst ·  sing ·  refrain ·  tinkle ·  guffaw ·  gust ·  chuckle ·  rendition ·  sob

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snatch:   snatches ·  snatched ·  snatching
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English snacchen.

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  1. from Middle English snachen, snacchen, snecchen, an assibilated form of snakken, English snack, snatch: see snack.
  2. from snatch, v. Cf. snack, n.
 

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