Definitions for snatches

• Definition
• Anagrams (350)

snatches snatch

Spelling: [snach]

IPA: /snætʃ/

Snatches is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 350 anagrams from letters in snatches (acehnsst).

Definitions for snatches

noun

1. the act or an instance of snatching.
2. a sudden motion to seize something; grab:
3. a bit, scrap, or fragment of something:
4. a brief spell of effort, activity, or any experience:
5. Nautical. a sheave or projecting member serving as a fairlead.
6. a brief period of time.
7. Slang. an act of kidnapping.
8. Slang: Vulgar. vulva; vagina.
9. Weightlifting. a lift in which the barbell is brought in a single motion from the floor to an arms-extended position overhead.

verb (used with object)

1. to seize by a sudden or hasty grasp:
2. to take, get, secure, etc., suddenly or hastily.
3. to rescue or save by prompt action:
4. Slang. to kidnap.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at).

Origin of snatches

1175-1225; Middle English snacche (noun), snacchen (v.) Middle Dutch snacken

Examples for snatches

Who is there among you, my friends, that may not snatch a brand from the burning!

I might, unnoticed, of course, snatch a bun from its grasp now and then.

Our pleasures are but the stolen moments we can snatch from its inattention.

The company reported $2.4 billion in annual sales and could snatch a valuation as high as $5 billion.

Scar-Jo, who also received the title in 2006, is the only woman to ever snatch it twice.

Police believe that their rigorous schedule actually gave the alleged abductors a safe window in which to snatch the child.

It is easy for an unscrupulous individual to pose as an underground banker, snatch up several large deposits, then cut and run.

In another change since his transit days, crooks now snatch cellphones, not gold chains.

I now think that to lie is, as it were, to snatch the reins out of God's hand.

Adams offered to snatch the gun out of his companion's hand.