snatch

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
snatch/snatʃ/

▶verb seize quickly and deftly.

■ informal steal or kidnap by seizing suddenly.

■ quickly secure or obtain.

▶noun

• 1 an act of snatching.

• 2 a fragment of music or talk.

• 3 Weightlifting the rapid raising of a weight from the floor to above the head in one movement.

• 4 vulgar slang a woman's genitals.

– derivatives
snatcher noun,
snatchy adjective.

– origin ME sna(c)che (v.) ‘suddenly snap at’, (n.) ‘a snare’; perh. rel. to snack.