snapped up

Related to snapped up: take hold, lined up, dropped off

snap up

To purchase or acquire something quickly before anyone else has the chance. A noun or pronoun can be used between "snap" and "up." During the Black Friday sales, customers rush through stores snapping merchandise up at incredibly low prices. The corporation has been snapping up smaller startup companies to broaden its range of products and services.
See also: snap, up
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

snapped (up)

1. mod. alcohol intoxicated. Pete was snapped up by eight-thirty.
2. mod. arrested. The bacon busted the joint and snapped everybody in sight.
See also: snap, up
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • involve with
  • involve with (someone or something)
  • involved with
  • arrange for
  • arrange for some time
  • arrange some music for
  • back into
  • back into (someone or something)
  • add in
  • angle
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Doubtless a few market watchers thought so and promptly upped their own lay offers - both in price and amount which had the effect of multiplying the liquidity on the contest - only for everything to be snapped up and the pounds 50,000 lay to disappear barely having been traded.
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Given what's at stake, it's hoped the Kelvin Hall's 2500 seats will all be snapped up for the Scot's fight against Sinitsin.
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