Definition of snatcher | Bee Dictionary of English

There's plenty of new technology in the meatpacking industry, but no machine has yet been invented to take over some of the toughest positions, like the role of gut snatcher, whose .
The following day, crowds surrounded and beat a suspected purse-snatcher in Bez Valley, shouting that it was men like him "who had killed Lucky Dube.
He achieved such success as a talent recruiter during World War II and Korea that he became known as "the body snatcher.

Woman injured in purse-snatching robbery
A purse-snatcher injured a woman during a robbery in Anne Arundel County, police said.
June 10, 2013 - WBAL-TV Baltimore
LeDuff Off the Chain: Good luck Chief Craig, Detroit is counting on you
Allegations of secret surveillance of the civilian police commissioner. Fudged murder statistics. Overworked, demoralized, ill-equipped, underpaid and disrespected police officers forced to play purse snatcher. Can the new chief, James Craig, succeed in the face of such dysfunction?
June 7, 2013 - FOX 2 News Detroit
Berlin police nab alleged purse-snatcher
Police say they've caught a purse-snatcher in Berlin who stole an elderly woman's handbag.
June 6, 2013 - WCAX-TV Vermont

Meryl Streep in MSNBC
I wish I were her, I really do,Streep said in her acceptance speech, calling the praise overwhelming. "Shape-shifter! Body snatcher!"
Peter Peacock in BBC News
Those are the powers Mrs Thatcher took away, when she was famously described as Margaret Thatcher the Milk Snatcher,Mr Peacock said. "This is opening the door potentially to the return of free milk in the middle of the morning, or free...
Kenny MacAskill in stv.tv
It was Margaret Thatcher milk snatcher, now apparently its Annabel Goldie carry out provider,Mr MacAskill said of the Scottish Tory leader in Holyrood. "The party that sought to be tough on law and order now seems to accept the disorder...