snatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: snatches
Etymology: From Middle English snacchen, snecchen, from Old English *snæċċan, *sneċċan or from Middle Dutch snacken, from Proto-West Germanic *snakkijan, from Proto-Germanic *snakkijaną, *snakkōną (“to nibble, snort, chatter”); see *snūtaz (“snout”).
Cognate with Dutch snakken (“to sob, pant, long for”), Low German snacken (“to chatter”), German schnacken (“to chat”), Danish snakke (“to chat”) and Norwegian snakke (“to chat”). Related to snack.
Senses: examples: text: The leftfielder makes a nice snatch to end the inning.
text: 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; […]
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: A quick grab or catch.
examples: text: Frank looked at the screens dully. He had slept about three hours, in snatches.
ref: 2020, Kim Stanley Robinson, chapter 1, in The Ministry for the Future, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN:
glosses: A short period.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
examples: text: I heard a snatch of Mozart as I passed the open window.
text: But, purgatory as the place would appear, the stranger advances into it; and, like Orpheus in his gay descent to Tartarus, lightly hums to himself an opera snatch.
ref: 1857, Herman Melville, chapter XV, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade:
glosses: A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
examples: text: Claude, is it true what they say about Olovia? Of course she’s getting a little old for us—what about Marilyum, did you try her snatch?
ref: 1962, Douglas Woolf, Wall to Wall, Grove Press, page 83:
text: Roughly Santino ripped the sheet from the bed, exposing all of her. She had blond hair on her snatch, which drove him crazy. He was partial to blondes.
ref: 1985, Jackie Collins, Lucky, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 150:
text: Dan: Hey, Ani, I found my keys! They were in my pocket.
Ani: That's great, Dan! Of course, I've never lost mine.
Dan: Really? Where do you keep yours?
Ani: In my snatch!
ref: 2004 July 11, Bayard Russell, nonemorecomic:
text: “[…]You want me to ask Brandy to let you paint her naked body with all this gooey stuff to make a mold of her snatch?”
ref: 2008, Jim Craig, North to Disaster, Bushak Press, →ISBN, page 178:
synonyms: cunt
twat
glosses: The vulva.
examples: text: If, after the pilot notices the overspeed, he deploys the spoilers, or if aileron "snatch" rolls the airplane to an excessive bank angle, it may become impossible to recover.
ref: 1982, National Transportation Safety Board, quoting Federal Aviation Administration, Learjet Special Certification Review interim report, 1981, quoted in Aircraft Accident Report: Sky Train Air, Inc., Gates Learjet 24, N44CJ, Felt, Oklahoma, October 1, 1981, archived from the original 21 February 2021, retrieved 20 Feb 2021, page 17:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
glosses: A brief period of exertion.
glosses: A catching of the voice.
glosses: A hasty snack; a bite to eat.
glosses: A quibble.
Derived terms: snatch block
snatch loading
snatch squad