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cradle-snatching

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

Meaning of cradle-snatch

Verb

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

  1. (slang) To have a romantic relationship with a person much younger than oneself.

Questions about cradle-snatching

What is cradle-snatching the present participle and gerund of?
Cradle-snatching is the present participle and gerund of cradle-snatch.

Words near cradle-snatching in the dictionary

  1. cradle-robber
  2. cradle-robbers
  3. cradle-snatch
  4. cradle-snatched
  5. cradle-snatches
  6. cradle-snatching
  7. cradle-to-cradle design
  8. cradle-to-cradle designs
  9. cradle-to-grave
  10. cradleboard
  11. cradleboards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cradle-snatching (page history and authors); cradle-snatch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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