Definition of Snatch

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Snatch

To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss.

To seize and transport away; to rap.

To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch; -- often with at; as, to snatch at a rope.

A hasty catching or seizing; a grab; a catching at, or attempt to seize, suddenly.

A short period of vigorous action; as, a snatch at weeding after a shower.

A small piece, fragment, or quantity; a broken part; a scrap.

The handle of a scythe; a snead.

Related Definitions:

Abruptly, Action, After, And, As, At, Attempt, Away, Broken, Catch, Catching, Ceremony, Fragment, Grab, Handle, Hastily, Hasty, Kiss, Loaf, Of, Often, Or, Part, Period, Permission, Piece, Quantity, Rap, Rope, Scrap, Scythe, Seize, Seizing, Short, Shower, Small, Snatch, Snead, Something, Take, The, To, Transport, Vigorous, Weeding, With, Without

Snatch Quotations

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
Xun Zi

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
Lord Chesterfield

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.
Edward Young

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
Wyclef Jean

Who breathe where you will, come into me and snatch me up to yourself.
Richard Rolle

Snatch Translations

snatch in German is hasche, zusammenraffen, greifen
snatch in Latin is prehendo, rapio rapui ratum
snatch in Spanish is arrebatimiento

Quotes