snatched

[ snacht ]

adjective

, Slang.

1. amazingly good, very attractive, flawlessly styled, etc.:

   Her fashion videos will get you looking snatched.

   Their dorm room is totally snatched.

Word History and Origins

Origin of snatched¹

First recorded in 1990–95; origin uncertain; possibly from regional American snatching “attractive” (1962); possibly from Black drag culture, where stage performers wear weaves (artificial hairweaves), and if something is amazingly good ( snatched ), it may snatch one's weave off, knock one's socks off (but the connection is unclear)

Example Sentences

The subtext of the clown is that life is a joke and can be snatched away at any moment.

From The Daily Beast

The Germans and Japanese have snatched their customers away in North America.

From The Daily Beast

The man snatched the weapon, and turned back toward the image of Obama.

From The Daily Beast

He snatched up the thrown chair and crashed it down onto the head of a charging older black man, who crumpled into a heap.

From The Daily Beast

Vladimir Putin snatched Crimea from Ukraine as a strategic, patriotic, and touristic prize.

From The Daily Beast

Mademoiselle snatched it from the hand, which was very tiny, and pink, with dimples where grown up folk have knuckles.

From Project Gutenberg

Keeping up an ululating clamor of commands, he ran to the roof of the dwelling, snatched up a musket and took steady aim.

From Project Gutenberg

The guard who had ridden up in front snatched at his shoulder holster as he turned in the direction of Delancy's fire.

From Project Gutenberg

We snatched a hasty morsel or two, and then hurried on, in order to complete the second half of the road before sunset.

From Project Gutenberg

Thereon, Augereau in fury snatched the whip from the officer, who at once drew his sword and attacked him.

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Related Words

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