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chain-snatching

chain-snatching is the present participle and gerund of chain-snatch.

Meaning of chain-snatch

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.

Questions about chain-snatching

What is chain-snatching the present participle and gerund of?
Chain-snatching is the present participle and gerund of chain-snatch.

Words near chain-snatching in the dictionary

  1. chain-smoking
  2. chain-smokings
  3. chain-snatch
  4. chain-snatched
  5. chain-snatches
  6. chain-snatching
  7. chainable
  8. chainage
  9. chainages
  10. Chainat
  11. chainbolt

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