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Meanings of snatcher in English

Portuguese
raptor
Catalan
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Spanish
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Someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)

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Usage of snatcher in English
1
That's an improvement over your body snatcher remark the other night.
Calamity jayne
2
At Iridium's feet, the purse snatcher tried to jump and run.
Shades of gray
3
Instead of a crazed fan, the assailant was an opportunist purse-snatcher.
The Irish Times
4
One day purse snatcher chose spot to steal woman's bag on his corner.
The new yorker
5
Tou are playing with me, are you, you vile body-snatcher, you loathsome well-whipped scum!
The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03
6
But the widow, your unknown auntie, the body-snatcher who annexed the old boy-whatof her?
Lady Larkspur
7
Maybe we'll stop a purse snatcher or something. She looks around searching for suspicious faces.
Getting old is tres dangereux
8
The milk snatcher reputation absorbed and lived with.
The Guardian
9
What do I care whether our hero's grandfather was Archbishop of Canterbury or a professional body-snatcher?
Some Private Views
10
The purse snatcher groaned, holding his broken nose.
Shades of gray
11
He got started as an ornament-object snatcher some years ago, while he was photographing people & bldgs.
The new yorker
12
In June two of its members were subduing a young Hispanic purse-snatcher when three TA cops intervened.
Creepers
13
The one you told Detective Ochoa must have been a purse snatcher and that you didn't know him?
Heat Wave
14
Or was she a body snatcher?
Damaged
15
You fucking body snatcher, I think.
The ministry of pain
16
A bag snatcher has managed to escape after running through the glass door of a Perth shopping centre.
BBC
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Translations for snatcher
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