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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The Love is Blind hosts scooped up the 8,200-square-foot Encino property for $6.8 million last summer after moving out of their Honolulu home following the cancellation of NCIS: Hawaiʻi, which Vanessa starred in for three seasons.
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Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 27 June 2025
In many of these cases, the assets of these struggling companies are being scooped up by private equity firms.
—Julie Song, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
MicroStrategy pioneered the strategy of scooping up cryptocurrencies and storing them on corporate balance sheets.
—Matt Egan, CNN Money, 26 June 2025
The Sabres could swing big and try to scoop up right-handed defenseman Scott Morrow.
—Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 19 June 2025
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Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 27 June 2025
In many of these cases, the assets of these struggling companies are being scooped up by private equity firms.
—Julie Song, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
MicroStrategy pioneered the strategy of scooping up cryptocurrencies and storing them on corporate balance sheets.
—Matt Egan, CNN Money, 26 June 2025
The Sabres could swing big and try to scoop up right-handed defenseman Scott Morrow.
—Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 19 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for scoop up
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“Scoop up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scoop%20up. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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