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snapper up

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noun

  1. a person who snaps up bargains, etc

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Red snapper up to 30 pounds are the prize catch off the area�s numerous artificial reefs, but tasty grouper, triggerfish and amberjack also are around.

From Time Magazine Archive

Autolycus, aw-tol′i-kus, n. a thief: a snapper up of unconsidered trifles: a plagiarist.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

He is a snapper up of unconsidered trifles, I'll be bound.

From A Cotswold Village by Gibbs, J. Arthur

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