scare something ↔ up phrasal verb American English informal (see also scare)
to make something although you have very few things to make it from:
Let me see if I can scare up something for you to eat.

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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.

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scare up something
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.

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scare up
• scare up (someone or something)
to find someone or something, to gather something with some effort
We were able to scare up a couple of sleeping bags so that we could go camping.

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scare up something
• scare up (someone or something)
to find someone or something, to gather something with some effort
We were able to scare up a couple of sleeping bags so that we could go camping.

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scare up
v., informal To find, collect, or get together with some effort when needed.
The boy scared up enough money to go to college.
"Will you stay for supper?" she asked. "I can scare up enough for us all."
He managed to scrape up the money for his speeding fine.

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