snap up

phrasal verb

snapped up; snapping up; snaps up

: to buy or take (something or someone) quickly or eagerly

Shoppers came to the store to snap up bargains after the holidays.

The company is hiring. When they see your work history, they'll snap you up!

Examples of snap up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Start fresh this season and snap up one of these on-sale bedding finds. —Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025

Head to Amazon to snap up the Whitin Wide Sneakers while they’re marked down to their lowest price in weeks. —Isabel Garcia, People.com, 3 Sep. 2025

That price was largely on par with what Fox sought a year earlier, and advertisers moved quickly to snap up inventory at a cost that hadn’t shot up despite tight demand. —Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025

Investors have plowed close to $350 million in the space with a new crop of startups like Omi and Limitless releasing wearables, while Amazon just snapped up Bee, a tiny note-taking device startup, for an undisclosed amount. —Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025

Rhymes for snap up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup