Dictionary:

grab

v., grabbed, grab·bing, grabs.

v.tr.

To take or grasp suddenly: grabbed the letter from me.

To capture or restrain; arrest.

To obtain or appropriate unscrupulously or forcibly: grab public funds; grab power.

To take hurriedly: grabbed my coat and hat and left.

Slang. To capture the attention of: a plot that grabs the reader.

v.intr.

To make a grasping or snatching motion: We grabbed for the life raft.

n.

Sudden seizure of something or someone; a snatch: “The imminence of death is reflected in every last power-stroke and grab of the great money bosses” (Dylan Thomas).

One that is grabbed.

A mechanical device for gripping an object.

snatch

v., snatched, snatch·ing, snatch·es.

v.tr.

To grasp or seize hastily, eagerly, or suddenly.

Sports. To raise (a weight) in one quick, uninterrupted motion from the floor to a position over the lifter's head.

To grasp or seize illicitly.

v.intr.

To make grasping or seizing motions: snatched at the lamp cord.

n.

The act of snatching; a quick grasp or grab.

A brief period of time: “At the end we preferred to travel all night,/Sleeping in snatches” (T.S. Eliot).

A small amount; a bit or fragment: a snatch of dialogue.

Slang. A kidnapping.

Sports. A lift in weightlifting in which the weight is raised in one uninterrupted motion from the floor to a position over the lifter's head.

Vulgar Slang. The vulva.