scoop up
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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Ask for another round of the appealingly coarse corn tortillas, for scooping up birria off a Jurassic-scale marrow bone.
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Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026
While final results are still outstanding, the national populist party seems to have scooped up more than 1,000 seats and taken control of eight councils across England.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 9 May 2026
Today, scientists scoop up lava or ash, fresh or ancient, around volcanoes — both during an eruption and in the interregnum between them — to identify subtle changes in chemical makeup.
—Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2026
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Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026
While final results are still outstanding, the national populist party seems to have scooped up more than 1,000 seats and taken control of eight councils across England.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 9 May 2026
Today, scientists scoop up lava or ash, fresh or ancient, around volcanoes — both during an eruption and in the interregnum between them — to identify subtle changes in chemical makeup.
—Quanta Magazine, 8 May 2026
Right now, scoop up Patagonia, The North Face, On, and more top brands for much less.
—Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 8 May 2026
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 13 May. 2026.
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