snatched

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snæt͡ʃt/
• Rhymes: -ætʃt
• Hyphenation: snatched

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Adjective

snatched (comparative more snatched, superlative most snatched)

1. (originally LGBTQ slang) Good-looking.
   • 2017, Shereé Whitfield, Wives, Fiancées, and Side-Chicks of Hotlanta‎^[1], →ISBN, page 46:

     So she lifted her head and continued the trek. “See, that's more like it,” Norman said. “Walk like you own this motherfuckin' town. You are looking snatched in that dress.” Norman pretended as though he had yanked something up out of thin air.

   • 2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine‎^[2]:

     “Everyone says that you should wait, because your body doesn’t fully come in until you’re like 30, and I’m 20 years old, and why am I going to wait until I’m 30 to be snatched?” Catera Northup, an exotic dancer from Rhode Island, said.

2. (slang, in particular) Having a narrow waist.

   Lucinda impressed her class when she revealed how snatched she was under her baggy sweatshirt.

3. (slang, of a person's waist) Narrow.
   • 2020 January 7, Chloé Hilliard, F*ck Your Diet: And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 131:

     However, one could make a strong correlation to her success ruling Europe in the 1600s to her having a snatched waist while strutting around the castle in heels. Come on, you know the world bends to a woman with 36-24-36 body measurements.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Mia Black, His Dirty Secret 2: Charmaine's Story, Mahogany Publications:

     “You know I'm endorsing a new line?” “I can tell with your extra snatched waist.” I gave her the stink eye. “Don't hate, bitch.” We both started cracking up.

Derived terms

• snatched waist

 

Verb

snatched

1. simple past and past participle of snatch

Anagrams

• chasten'd, stanched