snap up (food and essentials) 搶購(糧食及必需品)

snap up (food and essentials)
繁：搶購(糧食及必需品)
简：抢购(粮食及必需品)

世界各地爆發豬流感個案，本港陷入防疫恐慌，大批市民憂慮沙士重臨，昨日紛紛搶購防疫必備的口罩和消毒洗手液，港九新界多間藥房一日內售出口罩一萬至三萬個，存貨遭搶購一空並需即時補貨，藥房業說現時供應仍然穩定，但相信疫情惡化後出現搶購白熱化，呼籲業界不要趁火打劫加價，亦不排除要實施購買口罩「配額制」。

恐慌性搶購口罩賣清（2009年4月28日）。東方日報，取自 http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20090428/00176_003.html

Recently mainlanders have come to Hong Kong and Macau to snap up infant formula, which has therefore become scarce in the two SARs, much to many parents’ dismay.

Formula Shortage. (2011, April 20). Ming Pao. Retrieved from http://www.life.mingpao.com/cfm/learn3a.cfm?File=20110420/lncritica/critica1.txt