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Snap Up

Definition: Snap Up

Snap Up

Verb

1. Get hold of or seize quickly and easily; "I snapped up all the good buys during the garage sale".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Snap Up

Synonyms: grab (v), snaffle (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Snap Up

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Taking

Snap up, nip up, whip up, catch up; kidnap, crimp, capture, lay violent hands on.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Expression: Snap Up

Expression using "snap up": snap up a bargain. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Snap Up

Language Translations for "snap up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kap fluturimthi. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تهافت. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разграбвам, грабвам (catch up, grab, nip, snatch, steal away, take off, waltz off with, whip away, whip off, whip up, whisk), възразявам рязко, възразявам грубо, захапвам (bite, bite into, nip, occlude), залапвам, прекъсвам рязко, прекъсвам грубо. (various references)

   

Czech

  

skoupit (buy up), skoèit po, polapit (ensnare, entrap, snatch up). (various references)

   

French

  

se jeter sur, sauter sur (snatch), happer. (various references)

   

German

  

wegschnappen (snaffle up, snatch away). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αναρπάζω. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

felkap (snatch, to catch up, to hoick, to pick up, to snap up, to snatch up, to whip off, to wisp up, whip up), felcsíp (pick up, to pick up). (various references)

   

Italian

  

afferrare (apprehend, catch, clutch, get, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, Nick, penetrate, seize, snatch, snatch up, tackle, take), abboccare (bait, bite, nibble, rise to the bait). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

apsnay upay

   

Russian 

  

схватить (capture, catch, clutch, get, get hold of, grapple, gripe, nab, nail, nip, seize, snatch, tackle). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

odskočiti (bounce back, jump off, rebound, recoil, ricochet, snap, start aside), ščepati (clutch, grab, grasp, lay hold, nab, snap, snap at, snatch, whip up). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ponerse sobre, lanzarse sobre (go at, lay into, run at). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

gripa (apprehend, bite, capture, catch, claw, collar, embrace, hunt down, lay hold of, seize, take, touch). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yakalamak (account, bag, catch, catch hold of, catch up on, claw hold of, clutch, collar, cop, embrace, entrap, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, hook, intercept, nab, nail, nobble, overtake, pinch, pull up to, seize, seize on, snatch, tackle, take, take up, trap), kapmak (catch, clutch, dispossess, grab, grasp, imbibe, nab, poach, scoop up, seize, shut, shut in, snatch, snatch up, swoop up, twitch, whip, whip away, whip from), hemen kabul etmek, havada kapmak (leap at, seize, snap). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

розхапати. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Snap Up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-n-p-p-s-u"

-1 letter: punas, pupas.

-2 letters: anus, naps, pans, paps, puna, puns, pupa, pups, snap, span, spun, upas.

-3 letters: asp, nap, nus, pan, pap, pas, pun, pup, pus, sap, sau, spa, sun, sup, uns, ups.

-4 letters: an, as, na, nu, pa, un, up, us.

 Words containing the letters "a-n-p-p-s-u"
 

+2 letters: supplant, upsprang.

 

+3 letters: gunpapers, pupations, supplants, suppliant, unsnapped, upmanship.

 

+4 letters: epiphanous, superplane, supplanted, supplanter, suppliance, suppliants, supplicant, unappeased, unhappiest, unsnapping, unstrapped, upmanships.

 

+5 letters: cappuccinos, paperbounds, populations, postnuptial, superplanes, superweapon, supplanters, supplanting, suppliances, suppliantly, supplicants, suppressant, suppurating, suppuration, unhappiness, unstoppable, unstoppably, unstrapping, uppercasing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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