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Definition: Snap Up |
Snap UpVerb1. 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 UpSynonyms: grab (v), snaffle (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Expression using "snap up": snap up a bargain. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 схватить (capture, catch, clutch, get, get hold of, grapple, gripe, nab, nail, nip, seize, snatch, tackle). (various references) 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) ponerse sobre, lanzarse sobre (go at, lay into, run at). (various references) gripa (apprehend, bite, capture, catch, claw, collar, embrace, hunt down, lay hold of, seize, take, touch). (various references) 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) розхапати. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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