snatcher
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- noun
- /ˈsnætʃər/
- NSFW
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secuestrador
- All the other rumors, such as her having sold the recipe for human meat pies to the body snatchers Burke and Hare, or her being responsible for the Methodist Meeting House Panic back in '75 when all those children were crushed...
- baby snatchers
- body snatchers
That's what they were, people snatchers and these Africans stole their neighbors and and sold them.
- That's what they were, people snatchers and these Africans stole their neighbors and and sold them.
Examples
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You mean like a child-snatcher?
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Drug lords and organ snatchers.
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You know whose heart this body snatcher's tryin' to give me?
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I don't know how it works, but Christmas morning, I was sleeping in this little pub, keeping away from some snatchers.
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That's what they were, people snatchers and these Africans stole their neighbors and and sold them.
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That's what they were, people snatchers and these Africans stole their neighbors and and sold them.
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[SNATCHER 2]
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The police warned the neighborhood about a dangerous snatcher who had been kidnapping children near the park.
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Residents were terrified after a snatcher was reported to have taken someone from their doorstep in broad daylight.
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A snatcher was apprehended following a string of disappearances, and authorities are investigating the ransom demands.
Synonyms
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4.0
A person who takes someone away and keeps them to get money
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6.1
A person or animal that takes and holds another living thing, often by force
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8.2
A person who takes and holds someone illegally to demand money
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6.6
A person who catches and keeps people or animals
A person or thing that takes and keeps something
Antonyms
Compounds
- NSFW
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9.9
A person who steals dead bodies from graves to sell to medical schools for study
How Violent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Snatcher can also mean a person who seizes someone. It comes from the verb snatch, which means 'to seize', plus the ending -er for a person, so a snatcher can be a kidnapper who takes someone away for money.