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snatch (v.)

c.1225, perhaps from M.Du. snacken "to snatch, chatter." The noun is attested from c.1300; vulgar slang sense of "vulva" is recorded from 1903; from a much older sense of "sexual intercourse quickly performed" (c.1589). Weight-lifting sense is attested from 1928.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper

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