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What does snap up mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word snap up? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive, colloquial) To buy quickly, usually because the item is a bargain or in short supply or something one has been searching for.
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The plan has been to snap up regional titles and strip out costs by centralising printing works and back-office functions.
There was a festival atmosphere in UK bookshops as children eagerly flocked to snap up the latest tale.
Many steel execs thought Mittal was deluded as they watched him snap up distressed mills from Trinidad to Kazakhstan.
Even when divers aren't feeding in the tanks, they will always have Pigfish lingering close by, ready to snap up anything that looks like food.
The massive vultures also use their might to fend off hyenas and snap up the occasional live flamingo.
Or, if they do, they will overlook that error in their determination to snap up some stylish, low-priced quilts, lamps and rugs.

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