Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to snatch, to seize.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1796		T. Morton Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 55: Your friend [...] left it [i.e. a legacy] to you, and the old sly thief smushed it.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.