snatched

American  

[snacht] / snætʃt /

adjective

Slang.

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

   Her fashion videos will get you looking snatched.

   Their dorm room is totally snatched.

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Etymology

Origin of snatched

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

Maduro, 63, and wife Cilia Flores have been held in a Brooklyn jail for almost three months after American commandos snatched the pair from their compound in Caracas in early January.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

He approached, climbed the cottonwood tree and snatched a single pale-blue egg.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Laura McVay, who works in palliative care at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said the big cat snatched her brown 5½-year-old, pint-sized shih tzu named Declan around 11:30 p.m. mere “feet away from the door.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026

"I don't want another mum, another family, to feel the pain that mine's going through, for another child to have their future snatched away from them."

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

It snatched Clare off his hind legs and swept him into the open air, his claws stretching toward Gingersnipes, who remained wedged in the tree, wide-eyed and frozen.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Related Words

• captured