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snatcher|ˈsnætʃə(r)|
[f. snatch v.]
1. a. One who or that which snatches; a thief, a robber. (Also with at or away.)
1575Mirr. Mag., Tresilian xi, So catchers and snatchers toyle both night and daye, Not needy but greedy, still prolling for their praye. 1582Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 29, I am kind æneas, from foes thee snatcher of housgods. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, i. ii. 143 We do not meane the coursing snatchers onely, But feare the maine intendment of the Scot. 1611Cotgr., Grippeur, a griper; catcher, snatcher. 1648Hexham ii, Een Rucker, a Puller, or a Snatcher away. 1736Ainsworth Eng.-Lat. Dict. i, A snatcher at, captator. 1805Scott Last Minstr. iv. iv, Full oft the Tynedale snatchers knock At his lone gate. 1866Morn. Star 21 Aug. 3/2 There having lately been a great many ‘snatchers’ in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel. 1868Morris Earthly Par. (1870) I. ii. 461 The snatchers..Lurked round the gates of less well-guarded folds.
b. A body-snatcher. (See body n. 30.)
1831Ann. Reg., Law Cases, etc. 321/1 A person in the room..told him that he must mind what he was at, as they were snatchers. 1884A. Griffiths Chron. Newgate II. vii. 331 The snatchers brought a hamper which contained a body in a sack.
c. One who takes fish by ‘snatching’.
1878Standard 21 Oct. (Davies), Some ‘snatchers’ will use two, three, or even four triangles.
d. slang (orig. U.S.). A kidnapper.
1932Tulsa (Okla.) Daily World 7 Mar. 10/5 ‘Snatchers’ or kidnapers have not been as busy in Tulsa as they have in other cities. 1940‘D. Hume’ Invitation to Grave xviii. 235 Mick was reflecting upon the fact that his father's ‘snatchers’ had entered through this door.
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