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In modern (post 2008) slang, it's a shortened version of "Naturally" as in: She didn't call me back, so I was pissed. Natch.

Of course I was pissed.

The older usage is entirely different, and can be heard in old movies, (see the 1965 classic comedy "The Great Race" about an early 1900's car race) usually by a person who was recently tricked, or when the person realizes he's been bested. Imagine a villain with a cape, top hat, and old-fashioned handlebar mustache (such as Professor Fate in the movie above): "The hero escaped my trap again...Natch!"

In the old style, it's an interjection of disgust of having things not go as you had hoped, akin to "Curses! Foiled again!"

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