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Snap up

verb, slang

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  1. 1
    To buy or acquire quickly, usually because the item is a bargain or in short supply or something one has been searching for. colloquial, transitive

    "I dashed into the mall; bought a gift; raced to the card store, snapped up a two-fer gift-bag special and was back in my car in 26 minutes. I could medal in power shopping."

  2. 2
    get hold of or seize quickly and easily wordnet
  3. 3
    To snap at (a person); to speak harshly to. archaic, colloquial, transitive

    "[H]e saw Jonathan a horse-back, and, asking him how he did, Jonathan d—d him, and bid him not trouble him with impertinent questions; therefore the tradesman desired to know the reason why Jonathan snapped him up in that rude angry manner, when he had spoken to him so civilly."

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