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snatcher

[ US /ˈsnætʃɝ/ ]
[ UK /snˈæt‍ʃɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a thief who grabs and runs
    a purse snatcher
  2. someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)

How To Use snatcher In A Sentence

  • Officers in Doncaster have also started Operation Arrow Two, a high-visibility street crime initiative, targeting known criminals, in particular bag and purse snatchers.
  • “You tend to your business, you infernal bodysnatcher, and let us run ours, ” ran the message, and I understood. My Dog is avenged
  • The Daily Express headline ‘Scandal of the bodysnatchers’ was inappropriate because there were no bodysnatchers.
  • On to lighter things, here is a story of me and the purse snatcher at Town Hall Station.
  • Heavy slabs had been laid atop the ground over their coffins to discourage body snatchers.
  • For Rebus it is another opportunity to dwell, as he does often, on the bodysnatchers Burke and Hare.
  • It's like Dr. Bennel saying, "I didn't know the meaning of fear until I kissed Becky," in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, or Christoff saying, "Cue the sun," in The Truman Show. A Writer's Review
  • That kind of handphone can use to hit bag snatcher now. Archive 2009-09-01
  • The carnival regularly attracts armies of purse snatchers and pickpockets who find easy prey among the revellers.
  • The famous bodysnatchers Burke and Hare were never charged with violation of sepulchre because they eventually resorted to murder as a way of finding bodies to sell.
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