Word.ws English Dictionary

purse snatching

purse snatching noun: the act or practice of stealing a handbag, usually from a woman carrying it.

Noun

purse snatching

  1. The act or practice of stealing a handbag, usually from a woman carrying it.

Questions about purse snatching

What does purse snatching mean?
Purse snatching means the act or practice of stealing a handbag, usually from a woman carrying it.
What part of speech is purse snatching?
Purse snatching is a noun.

Words near purse snatching in the dictionary

  1. purse puppy
  2. purse seine
  3. purse seines
  4. purse snatcher
  5. purse snatchers
  6. purse snatching
  7. purse string
  8. purse strings
  9. purse-bearer
  10. purse-bearers
  11. purse-pride

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: purse snatching (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “purse snatching.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/purse_snatching. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.