SNAP UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does snap up mean? 

• SNAP UP (verb)
  The verb SNAP UP has 1 sense:

1. get hold of or seize quickly and easily

  Familiarity information: SNAP UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNAP UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get hold of or seize quickly and easily

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

grab; snaffle; snap up

Context example:

I snapped up all the good buys during the garage sale

Hypernyms (to "snap up" is one way to...):

take (take into one's possession)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "snap up"):

hog (take greedily; take more than one's share)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

And I'd rather have it than any title such as girls snap up so readily, and find nothing behind.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)