Idiom
snap something up
Theme: SPEED
to make something go faster.You're playing this music too slowly. Snap it up!This performance is getting slow and dull. Let's snap up the whole thing!
Idiom
snap something up
Theme: COMMERCE
to grab and buy something.I always snap bargains up whenever I go shopping.I went to the store, and they had soup on sale, so I snapped up plenty.
Slang
snap something up
Theme: COMMERCE
tr. to buy up something.People were snapping these things up like hotcakes.The customers snapped up all the humidifiers on the second day of the cold spell.