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"ref": "2004 October 29, Carol McAlice Currie, “Unposted laws make downtown seem unwelcoming”, in Statesman Journal, volume 152, number 214, Salem, OR, page 1C",
"text": "I dashed into the mall; bought a gift; raced to the card store, snapped up a two-fer gift-bag special and was back in my car in 26 minutes. I could medal in power shopping.",
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"ref": "2007 May 3, “Conquistadors on the beach”, in The Economist, →ISSN",
"text": "Spanish businesses have spent nearly $60 billion snapping up British firms, culminating in the recent purchase of Scottish Power by Iberdrola, a Spanish utility.",
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"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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"(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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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "grabvam",
"sense": "to buy quickly",
"word": "грабвам"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to buy quickly",
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},
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"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to buy quickly",
"word": "sich schnappen"
},
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"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to buy quickly",
"word": "elkapkod"
},
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"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to buy quickly",
"word": "kapmak"
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"ref": "1840, Henry Fielding, The History of the Life of Jonathan Wild, the Great, page xlviii",
"text": "[H]e saw Jonathan a horse-back, and, asking him how he did, Jonathan d—d him, and bid him not trouble him with impertinent questions; therefore the tradesman desired to know the reason why Jonathan snapped him up in that rude angry manner, when he had spoken to him so civilly.",
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"To snap at (a person); to speak harshly to."
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"(transitive, colloquial, archaic) To snap at (a person); to speak harshly to."
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"word": "snap it up"
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"text": "I dashed into the mall; bought a gift; raced to the card store, snapped up a two-fer gift-bag special and was back in my car in 26 minutes. I could medal in power shopping.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "2007 May 3, “Conquistadors on the beach”, in The Economist, →ISSN",
"text": "Spanish businesses have spent nearly $60 billion snapping up British firms, culminating in the recent purchase of Scottish Power by Iberdrola, a Spanish utility.",
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"(transitive, colloquial, archaic) To snap at (a person); to speak harshly to."
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"sense": "to buy quickly",
"word": "грабвам"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to buy quickly",
"word": "s’arracher"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to buy quickly",
"word": "sich schnappen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to buy quickly",
"word": "elkapkod"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to buy quickly",
"word": "kapmak"
}
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"word": "snap up"
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