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snatch and runs

snatch and runs is the plural of snatch and run.

Meaning of snatch and run

Noun

snatch and run (plural snatch and runs)

  1. (attributive, figuratively, often) An unsophisticated method of committing robbery by grabbing someone's property and attempting to flee with it.
    • Your snatch-and-run Reader, your miserable compiler of 'Beauties' is a mere chattering ape.1870, Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, “Essay Critical and Elucidatory on the Poetry of Lord Brooke”, in Alexander B. Grosart, editor, The Works in Verse and Prose Complete of the Right Honourable Fulke...

Questions about snatch and runs

What is snatch and runs the plural of?
Snatch and runs is the plural of snatch and run.

Words near snatch and runs in the dictionary

  1. snasts
  2. snatch
  3. snatch and grab
  4. snatch and grabs
  5. snatch and run
  6. snatch and runs
  7. snatch block
  8. snatch blocks
  9. snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
  10. snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory
  11. snatch loading

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