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.

Examples of scoop up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Companies connected to the president’s family and appointees have scooped up numerous DOD deals. — Jesse Coburn, ProPublica, 19 Aug. 2026

Google has reportedly purchased Spirit’s trove of operational and customer data as part of the carrier’s bankruptcy wind-down, scooping up years of booking patterns, pricing behavior, and customer service logs to help train its AI. — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2026

Bakers can scoop up a three-piece set that works for everything from banana bread to a bubbling casserole. — Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 16 Aug. 2026

Last October, Amazon MGM Studios’ United Artists scooped up Lizard Music, which is written and directed by Safdie, following his and Johnson’s work together on A24’s The Smashing Machine last year. — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 16 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for scoop up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup