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!

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Data from Vanda Research shows retail investors snapped up a record amount of Nvidia shares on net on Monday, when the stock suffered its worst loss in nearly five years after the emergence of China’s DeepSeek artificial intelligence platform catalyzed a global tech rout. —

Alex Harring, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2025 Consumers may have also been enticed to snap up durables because of lower short-term interest rates. —

Bryan Mena, CNN, 30 Jan. 2025 See last year’s honorees here, then scroll on for the latest must-buys, as judged by our team of shopping experts — and snapped up by you, our R29 readers. —

R29 Team, refinery29.com, 29 Jan. 2025 Announced in late 2017, the production Senna, with its $1 million price tag, debuted at the Geneva auto show the following year, by which time all 500 cars had been snapped up. —

Howard Walker, Robb Report, 27 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for snap up