(UK) A group of police officers who rush forward in formation so as to apprehend an individual from a crowd.
(UK) A group of police officers who rush forward in formation so as to apprehend an individual from a crowd.
There have been numerous reports of snatch squads detaining men on the street and drafting them into the army.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(US) Police who arrested beggars and homeless people.
(US, historical) A police intelligence unit specializing in infiltrating, conducting countermeasures, and gathering intelligence on political and social groups.
(chiefly, US, informal, derogatory, idiomatic) A group of individuals serving as enforcers, bodyguards, assassins, and the like, especially persons hired for such a purpose and using violent, thuggish methods.
(chiefly, US, Ireland) A police car.
(slang, jocular, pejorative, obsolete) One who makes arrests, such as a bailiff or policeman.