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snap up

verb

Snatch for one's own use, as in As soon as they lower the price we intend to snap up the house; it's exactly what we want . [Mid-1500s]

For days, the ruble has been falling and salaries shrinking; shoppers have rushed to snap up TV sets and washing machines.

Anyone out there who has any sense at all would just snap up one of her new $73 snake-skin numbers right quick!

Merely as a suggestion, I would say that the Antiquarian Society would snap up many of the things.

A toad has been observed to snap up one hundred and twenty-eight flies in half an hour.

When he judged himself near enough he would make a little run and try to snap up his victim.

I did not go till the following week, when I found that no one had attempted to snap up the Conwell place.

She never goes out except to snap up some game passing within her hunting-domains, near the burrow.

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