- a very small part of a conversation or some music that you hear synonym snippet
- a snatch of music
- I only caught snatches of the conversation.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- brief
- catch
- hear
- overhear
- …
- in snatches
- a snatch of conversation
- a snatch of dialogue
- a snatch of music
- …
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- an act of moving your hand very quickly to take or steal something
- a bag snatch
- to make a snatch at something
- (taboo, slang) a woman’s outer sex organs
Word OriginMiddle English sna(c)che (verb) ‘suddenly snap at’, (noun) ‘a snare’; perhaps related to snack.
Idioms
See snatch in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryin snatches
- for short periods rather than continuously
- Sleep came to him in brief snatches.
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