American to try to find someone or something that you need
You'd better scout up someone to take Bob's place on the team.
scout up
To spend time thoroughly or exhaustively attempting to locate someone or something. A noun or pronoun is used between "scout" and "up." He spent the better part of a day scouting up the parts he would need to finish his prototype.We'll need to scout a new manager up for this project.
scout someone or something up
to search for and find someone or something. I'll scout up a costume for the Halloween party. Can you scout a date up for Friday night?