snaffle up
snaffle up
1. To quickly snatch or steal something, especially furtively or surreptitiously. (In each usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "snaffle" and "up.") He snaffled up the note that fell out of her school bag and slipped it into his papers as inconspicuously as possible.
2. By extension, to take possession of something for oneself very eagerly or greedily. The antique dealer snaffled up the rare vintage car that had been sitting in the farmer's barn for three decades.
3. To devour something greedily or ravenously; to gobble something up. I threw a piece of bread to the birds on the grass, and they snaffled it up in the blink of an eye.
4. By extension, to consume some form of media very eagerly or avidly. I was obsessed with science fiction as a kid, and I snaffled up anything and everything to do with it that I could find.
See also: up
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- the jaws of (something)
- the jaws of death, defeat, etc.
- a steal
- malware
- yoink
- yoink something
- steal away
- cop (something) from (someone or something)
- cop from
- edge up