snatch

To grasp and remove quickly.

He snatched up the phone.

She snatched the letter out of the secretary's hand.

To attempt to seize something suddenly.

to snatch at a rope

To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.

to snatch a kiss

1731-1735, Alexander Pope, Moral Essays when half our knowledge we must snatch, not take

To steal.

Someone has just snatched my purse!

Laura snatches coins from inside a truck to make a telephone call, scrounges shoes and clothes for them at a municipal beach, schemes to get a room key so she and Howie can sleep overnight in the Starlight Motel, steals a Jeepster from a deputy sheriff who's trying to arrest them.

To take (a victory) at the last moment.

But, with United fans in celebratory mood as it appeared their team might snatch glory, they faced an anxious wait as City equalised in stoppage time.

A quick grab or catch.

The leftfielder makes a nice snatch to end the inning.

And he […] glared on the cold pistols that hung before him—ready for anything. And he took down one with a snatch and weighed it in his hand, and fell to thinking again; […]

A short period.

At the end we preferred to travel all night, Sleeping in snatches,

Frank looked at the screens dully. He had slept about three hours, in snatches.

A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.

A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.

I heard a snatch of Mozart as I passed the open window.

But, purgatory as the place would appear, the stranger advances into it; and, like Orpheus in his gay descent to Tartarus, lightly hums to himself an opera snatch.

The vulva.

Claude, is it true what they say about Olovia? Of course she’s getting a little old for us—what about Marilyum, did you try her snatch?

Roughly Santino ripped the sheet from the bed, exposing all of her. She had blond hair on her snatch, which drove him crazy. He was partial to blondes.