Someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)

Usage examples of snatcher.

What I think happened is the snatchers most probably had three motors and resprayed them, say once a week, hoping to lessen the chances of being noticed.

The crack dealer, the shoplifter, the welfare scammer, the chain snatcher.

Corpses usually rested in rooms such as this until a coffin could be fashioned, Dare knew, to prevent body snatchers from stealing the cadavers and selling them for medical studies.

I took a swat at it, thinking of body snatchers and other podlike creatures with .

There was no other way to force the missile batteries and border defense installations to turn on their secret tracking equipment and thus enable the American signal snatchers to capture the precious electrons.

What I think happened is the snatchers most probably had three motors and resprayed them, say once a week, hoping to lessen the chances of being noticed.

When those snatchers got here, wherever they came from, they had to set up base close to The Evening News 249 Larchmont, but not too close-just the way we said.

All regular snatchers try to make their stuff look like the work of cranks and amateurs.

A bag snatcher who carries a naked knife and uses it on your torso as he snatches?

Apologies were made and regrets were expressed to the tall and athletic young American about the activities of pickpockets and bag snatchers in public places and he was told of the many precautions the airport authorities took to try to curb their thefts from incoming foreigners.

There was an unsurpassed daily and nightly parade of burglars, purse snatchers, dope addicts, drunks, wife beaters, brawlers, pimps, hookers, perverts, and cranks.