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Plural of snatch

regular plural

The plural of snatch is snatches.

Forms of snatch

Singularsnatch /snæt͡ʃ/
Pluralsnatches
Countablecountable

Snatches in a sentence

  • He had slept about three hours, in snatches.2020, Kim Stanley Robinson, chapter 1, in The Ministry for the Future, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN
  • The mountain lion’s only knowledge of the world comes through snatches of human conversation.2023 July 28, Rahul Raina, “Open Throat by Henry Hoke review – inside the mind of a queer mountain lion”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The…. From the entry TikTokable
  • He was part of a blag team famous for a series of large-scale wage snatches.1997, Stephen Smith, “Helter Skelter Years”, in Addict: An Incredible True Story with a Fairytale End, [United Kingdom]: Westworld…. From the entry blag
  • But the play's snatches of racy prose do not offset its stretches of lumpish playwriting.1951 March 5, “New Plays in Manhattan”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2023. From the entry lumpish
  • Danny hurtles the back of the sofa, snatches his sister in a chokehold, and works a serious nuggy into her head.2018, Beem Weeks, Strange Hwy: Short Stories, Fresh Ink Group, →ISBN. From the entry nuggy

Meaning of snatch

  1. verb To grasp and remove quickly.
  2. verb To attempt to seize something suddenly.
  3. verb To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.

Full definition of snatch

Questions about the plural of snatch

What is the plural of snatch?
The plural of snatch is snatches.
Is snatch countable?
Snatch is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snatch (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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