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- noun one who
kidnaps a baby
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Examples
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The alleged baby-snatcher prepares for court, though with evidence building, does she have a legal leg to stand on?
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COOPER: The alleged baby-snatcher prepares for court, but with evidence building, does she have a legal leg to stand on?
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The accused baby-snatcher shows up in court to hear the charges against her.
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He sometimes felt rather like a baby-snatcher who had abandoned his victim immediately after stealing it.
The Sands of Mars Clarke, Arthur C. 1951
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He studied Jimmy with new interest, proud in the belief that he had brought a confirmed "baby-snatcher" to justice.
Baby Mine 1911
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Of course nobody believed her; the women were scornful, the men not quite nice, till very young _Lord Stevenage_, the one that was engaged to a notorious baby-snatcher, _Lady Tonbridge_ -- in a high fever he'd unfortunately said "Yes" -- meets her, and you guess the rest.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-07 Various 1898
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Yet our obsession with security has turned the figure of the baby-snatcher into a paranoid fantasy.
Slate Magazine Daniel Engber 2011
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Perth, about 9pm local time on Monday after the alleged baby-snatcher stole $7 from a bottle shop, The West
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Police say the woman was bashed by the child's mother outside a house in Kwinana, south of Perth, about 9pm local time on Monday after the alleged baby-snatcher stole $7 from a bottle shop, The West Australian reported.
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Perth, about 9pm local time on Monday after the alleged baby-snatcher stole $7 from a bottle shop, The West
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