Wiktionary
vb. 1 To frighten (an animal, especially a game animal) into appearing from cover. 2 (context figuratively English) To find or procure, especially something not easily found or procured.
Usage examples of "scare up".
And it's as much as me life's worth to speak up and say let's break camp and head south like sensible folk, try to scare up some news from Rome as isn't staler than week-old pig piss.
And if later at the party I should find Anastasia too forward or compliant a stall-mate, or too well-washed, say, to rouse my ardor, he was certain he could scare up a nanny-goat somewhere on Founder's Hill, perhaps at the Refuse Dump.
Fortunately Captain Hufnagel, who has a position in the civilian administration of the Canadian occupation authorities and is able to treat himself and his family to a genuine peacetime Christmas -- he's even managed to scare up some nut butter!
I believe I'll straggle down to that gin palace and see if I can scare up a game.
It would be naive to imagine that UM President Tad Foote, or TV star Don Johnson, or the publisher of this newspaper couldn't scare up decent seats to the Orange Bowl game.
Abner Marsh was up and about early every morning, and on the streets by ten, making calls on shippers and hotel proprietors, talking up his boat and trying to scare up business.
But if anybody's faint I strongly suspect we can scare up some makeshift rations meanwhile.
When we'd forted up they left it to me to scare up some fresh meat as we planned to live off the country and stretch our store-bought rations.
If they could just get to Quanah, they could scare up a wagon for themselves.