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snap up

verb

  1. to avail oneself of eagerly and quickly

    she snapped up the bargains

  2. to interrupt abruptly

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

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]
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The commission’s members said this would bring a coordinated approach, avoiding a free-for-all in which investors snap up properties and make new homes unaffordable for displaced people.

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Ordinary folk are just as obsessed - from Shanghai to London, the long queues to snap up the doll have made headlines, sometimes descending into fights even.

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Even when “Dawson’s Creek” was snapped up by the WB in 1996 and Williamson was encouraged to mine his own life for material, he was, at first, afraid to write a queer character.

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“The best rental opportunities are snapped up quickly, even in softening markets,” Clyde said.

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A $10 fee appears to be discouraging brokers from snapping up prime tee times at L.A.’s public golf courses and selling the reservations online, interviews and data show.

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