SNATCH

I. verb Etymology: Middle English snacchen to snap, seize; akin to Middle Dutch snacken to snap at Date: 13th century intransitive verb to attempt to seize something suddenly, transitive verb to take or grasp abruptly or hastily , see: take ~er noun II. noun Date: 1563 1. a brief period , a brief, fragmentary, or hurried part ; bit , 2. a ~ing at or of something, an act or instance of kidnapping, a lift in weight lifting in which the weight is raised from the floor directly to an overhead position in a single motion, the female pudenda