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Weightlifting's fastest way to turn a loaded bar into overhead regret.
means To grab or seize something suddenly — or, in weightlifting, the lift that hoists a barbell from floor to overhead in one explosive motion.
from From Middle English 'snacchen,' meaning to seize or snap at, likely related to Low German and Dutch words for snatching or snapping shut — possibly echoing the quick, biting sound of something grabbed suddenly. The weightlifting sense is a straightforward 19th-century borrowing of the everyday word, describing the lift's single, sudden grab-and-rise motion rather than the slower two-step clean-and-jerk.
- the move
- floor to overhead in one explosive pull
- speed
- bar travels full range in under a second
- also means
- british slang with zero relation to barbells
- olympic status
- one of two lifts contested since 1896