scoop up
phrasal verb
scooped up; scooping up; scoops up
informal
: to take or buy (something) in a quick and eager way
Customers scooped up the free samples.
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Soldiers have also been spotted in parks carrying out tasks typically assigned to gardeners and landscapers – shoveling mulch, blowing leaves and scooping up trash.
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Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
The recent breakthrough came from looking for boulder fall ejecta (BFE), the fresh lunar material scooped up and deposited along a boulder’s path.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
The senior also alertly scooped up a fumble by his quarterback Andrew Acuna and advanced that recovery 52-yards for another touchdown.
—David Delgado, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
Investor Tim Seymour is looking for pockets of unloved stocks to scoop up during this window before the Fed decision, in anticipation of a broadening of the market.
—John Melloy, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
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Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
The recent breakthrough came from looking for boulder fall ejecta (BFE), the fresh lunar material scooped up and deposited along a boulder’s path.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
The senior also alertly scooped up a fumble by his quarterback Andrew Acuna and advanced that recovery 52-yards for another touchdown.
—David Delgado, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
Investor Tim Seymour is looking for pockets of unloved stocks to scoop up during this window before the Fed decision, in anticipation of a broadening of the market.
—John Melloy, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2025
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“Scoop up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scoop%20up. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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