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

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

AI still had hopes of victory going into Monday's match, and would have snatched the weekly win if the final score had been 1-1, not 2-2.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 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

He snatched provisional top spot in beautiful, sunny conditions, but could only watch with bated breath as his understudy took to the start hut.

From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026

The competitors snatched the lids off and started singing to their rice.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Related Words

• captured