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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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