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scare up

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scare someone or something up
Rur. to search for and find someone or something. Go out in the kitchen and scare some food up. I'll see if I can scare up somebody to fix the broken chair.
See also: scare, up

scare up something
to find or obtain something that is not easily available At the very least, I'm sure he'll have some original ideas on how to scare up some cash. We discovered it was impossible to scare up an audience for the game. Related vocabulary: scrape together something
See also: scare, up


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