snatcher

[snach-er]

noun

1. someone who snatches a person or thing; a thief or kidnapper.

2. someone who entices another person into a relationship, often through manipulative or disloyal means.

Example Sentences

A phone snatcher has been convicted after DNA from a shoe he lost during a theft in the City of London linked him to the crime.

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A phone snatcher who used an electric motorbike to steal devices from members of the public in central London has pleaded guilty to theft, police said.

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From then on, I decided to be a bag snatcher, too.

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Vicaria’s genius inspires the neighborhood kids to christen her “mad scientist” and later, “body snatcher,” for she labors under the conviction that “death is a disease.”

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Beneath that top story was the news of a halt to some bombings in Vietnam, division over school busing in Prince George’s County and the story of a local man killed fighting a purse snatcher.

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