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Snatcher

noun

A thief who grabs and runs.

Someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom). Synonyms: abductor, kidnaper, kidnapper.

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"Snatcher" Quotes from Famous Books

... four have fine science in their tales. I have had only three copies of Astounding Stories, and the tales I like best are: "Vandals of the Stars," the serial "Brigands of the Moon," "Monsters of Moyen"—this was most interesting—"The Ray of Madness," "The Soul Snatcher," and "The Jovian Jest." This last, though short, I thought to be very good, and it gave one furiously to think, too. While I like all kinds of Science Fiction, I have a special preference for interplanetary and fourth ...

— Astounding Stories, March, 1931 • Various

... thank God,' said the cornet's wife.' "Snatcher" is certainly the only word for him.' Lukashka was surnamed 'the Snatcher' because of his bravery in snatching a boy from a watery grave, and the cornet's wife alluded to this, wishing in her turn to say something agreeable to ...

— The Cossacks • Leo Tolstoy

... content with refusing revenue,' he continued, 'this outlander refuses also the begar' (this was the corvee or forced labour on the roads) 'and stirs my people up to the like treason. Yet he is, when he wills, an expert log-snatcher. There is none better or bolder among my people to clear a block of the river when the logs ...

— The Kipling Reader - Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling • Rudyard Kipling

... while we're helpin' to put out fires, not to speak of all the worry and bother of tryin' to get information out of parrots and bandicoots an' hedgehogs, why, it's enough to make a man suspect his own grandfather of bein' a puddin'-snatcher.' ...

— The Magic Pudding • Norman Lindsay

... trouble with him before?" remarked the officer. He studied Jimmy with new interest, proud in the belief that he had brought a confirmed "baby-snatcher" ...

— Baby Mine • Margaret Mayo

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