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Definition: Snatcher |
SnatcherNoun1. A thief who grabs and runs; "a purse snatcher". 2. Someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "snatcher" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
Synonyms: SnatcherSynonyms: abductor (n), kidnapper (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Body soul snatcher, universal language (Music; performing artist: Erick Sermon) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Balloon Snatcher (1969) The Body Snatcher (1966) Picture Snatcher (1933) The Dog Snatcher (1931) Dog Snatcher (1907) | |
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| "Snatcher" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Snatcher" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "snatcher": baby snatcher ♦ bag snatcher ♦ body snatcher ♦ purse snatcher ♦ Toad snatcher. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "snatcher": cradle-snatcher, Milk-snatcher, purse-snatcher. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
snatcher | 70 |
serial snatcher v2 | 22 |
icon snatcher | 9 |
ip snatcher | 6 |
cd sega snatcher | 5 |
photo snatcher | 5 |
rom snatcher | 4 |
game snatcher | 3 |
address email snatcher | 3 |
from konami snatcher | 3 |
game genie snatcher | 3 |
code snatcher | 3 |
body snatcher | 3 |
html snatcher | 3 |
cd rom sega snatcher | 2 |
snatcher web | 2 |
emulation snatcher | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "snatcher"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | крадец на трупове (body snatcher, ghoul). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قاپنده , رباینده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | leichenräuber (body snatcher), handtaschendieb (bag snatcher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άρπαξ (pillager, poacher, preyer, prowler, ransacker, ravisher, shark, spoliator, swoper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חוטף (abductor, kidnapper), חטפן (kidnapper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hullatolvaj (body snatcher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penjambret. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scippatore (purse snatcher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 引っ手繰り (purse snatcher, purse snatching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひったくり (purse snatcher, purse snatching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atchersnay ladrão de cadáveres (body snatcher). (various references) persoanã care exhumeazã cadavre (body snatcher). (various references) грабитель (depredator, extortioner, freebooter, harpy, harrier, looter, mugger, outlaw, plunderer, ransacker, reaver, reiver, robber, sandbagger, spoliator, yegg). (various references) siabair (sweeper, wiper). (various references) ladrón de cadáveres (body snatcher). (various references) väskryckare (bag snatcher). (various references) ผู้ฉกฉวย. (various references) kendinden çok genç biriyle evlenen kimse (baby snatcher), ceset hırsızı (body snatcher), bebek hırsızı (baby snatcher). (various references) грабіжник (burglar, depredator, looter, outlaw, plunderer, reaver, reiver, robber, sacker), злодій (gunsmith, nimmer, picaroon, prowler, robber, rogue, sneak, thief). (various references) cipiwr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "snatcher": snatchers. (additional references) | |
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"Snatcher" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: santschii, Satkhira, Shachar, snicher. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "snatcher" (pronounced sna"kher) |
| 3 | -a" kh er | catcher, dispatcher, Hatcher, stature, Thatcher. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: chanters, stancher, tranches. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: anthers, canters, carnets, chanter, chasten, chaster, nectars, rachets, ranches, ratches, recants, scanter, tanrecs, thenars, trances, tranche. | |
-2 letters: anther, antres, arches, ascent, astern, caners, canter, carets, carnet, cartes, casern, caster, caters, centas, centra, chants, chares, charts, chaser, chaste, cheats, cherts, cranes, crates, earths, enacts, encash, eschar, hances, hasten, haters, hearts, naches, nacres, nectar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: anchorets, anthraces, chantries, chastener, chaunters, ethnarchs, merchants, pentarchs, snatchers, snatchier, stanchers, stauncher. | |
+2 letters: anchorites, antechoirs, branchiest, branchlets, chasteners, enchanters, entrechats, parchments, raunchiest, revanchist. | |
+3 letters: achondrites, anthracenes, anthracites, anthracnose, beachfronts, cantharides, catarrhines, charmingest, chlorinates, enchantress, interchains, octahedrons, pentarchies, preachments, revanchists, shortchange, starchiness, technocrats, trochanters. | |
+4 letters: antechambers, anthracnoses, antihysteric, archenterons, chanterelles, chanticleers, chiropterans, cornstarches, ctenophorans, disenchanter, euchromatins, furtherances, gnatcatchers, inheritances, interchanges, kitchenwares, leathernecks, lycanthropes, neurasthenic, rhetoricians, scratchiness, shortchanged, shortchanger, shortchanges, stenographic, stickhandler, thunderclaps, transhumance, trenchancies, unhysterical. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6E 61 74 63 68 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -. .- - -.-. .... . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101110 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S n a t c h e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006E 0061 0074 0063 0068 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5380678669747184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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