scare so or sth up meaning

[American slang]
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.

• scare so or sth away:    [American slang]to ...
• scare so out of sth:    [American slang]to ...
• scare sth out of so:    [American slang]to ...