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Verb: snatch up
  1. To grasp hastily or eagerly
    "She snatched up the last cookie before anyone else could take it";
    - snatch, snap

Derived forms: snatched up, snatches up, snatching up

Type of: clutch, prehend [archaic], seize, take hold, take hold of