snatcher:
(usually used with a related word; plural: ‘snatchers‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a chain-snatcher
a person who snatches (grabs) something and tries to pull if off;
a thief who snatches something valuable from somebody else, pulls it off and tries to run away;
a kidnapper,
a purse-snatcher
Not knowing that the person standing beside her at the bus-stop was a chain snatcher, Brenda went on texting her friend and the chain snatcher made with her gold chain.
There are several types of snatchers: purse-snatchers who snatch handbags and purses; chain-snatchers who snatch gold or sliver chains and necklaces right off the wearers necks; body-snatchers who steal dead bodies from the graves; and news snatchers, news reporters who steal other reporters’ news stories; ‘baby-/child-snatchers who steal newly born babies from hospitals or small children from parks; and cradle-snatchers who have illegal relationships with much younger partners.
The police have special squads to keep tabs on the known snatchers at market places, who in plain clothes mingle with the people and when any snatcher tries to snatch away anything from anybody, they catch them red-handed.
