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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

"All I've wanted to do is fight for my team and now the ability to do that has been snatched away from me … along with the World Cup," added Simons.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026

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

Creeping low, out of sight of snooping binoculars, Nim jumped into the tidal pools and snatched up armfuls of the iguanas’ favorite seaweed.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

Related Words

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