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chain-snatch

chain-snatch verb: to snatch a gold chain (or sometimes a silver chain) from a woman (or a man) and run away.

Verb

chain-snatch (third-person singular simple present chain-snatches, present participle chain-snatching, simple past and past participle chain-snatched)

  1. (India) To snatch a gold chain (or sometimes a silver chain) from a woman (or a man) and run away.

Forms of chain-snatch

third-person singular presentchain-snatches
present participlechain-snatching
past participlechain-snatched
pastchain-snatched

Questions about chain-snatch

What does chain-snatch mean?
Chain-snatch means to snatch a gold chain (or sometimes a silver chain) from a woman (or a man) and run away.
What part of speech is chain-snatch?
Chain-snatch is a verb.
What is the past tense of chain-snatch?
The past tense of chain-snatch is chain-snatched.

Words near chain-snatch in the dictionary

  1. chain-smoker
  2. chain-smokers
  3. chain-smokes
  4. chain-smoking
  5. chain-smokings
  6. chain-snatch
  7. chain-snatched
  8. chain-snatches
  9. chain-snatching
  10. chainable
  11. chainage

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