snap up
snaffle
grab ***

Second, the movie rights to the books were immediately snapped up.

Even at the higher price they were soon snapped up.

Thousands of companies were snapped up in the last five years.

If this kept on, the earth itself might snap them up.

The older one's head snapped up as she heard him.

"Whatever does become available is usually snapped up pretty quickly."

"The thing could snap us up quickly enough any time it wanted to."

I snapped up my watch and made for the door.

His head snapped up so that he could see me.

Within months, all the available 900 numbers were snapped up.