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.

Examples of scoop up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Police scooped up the woozy 11-year-old and laid her on the trunk of the police car until an ambulance arrived. —Marisa Kwiatkowski, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024

The abundance of homes, in turn, drove buyers to scoop up a property -- or multiple properties -- as appreciating assets rather than places to live. —Max Zahn, ABC News, 11 May 2024

Denver guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope quickly scooped up the pack and tossed it off the floor as everyone else entered a state of confusion. —Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 7 May 2024

Just last night, the company scooped up a Ben Mezrich book proposal centered on the Carlsen-Niemann chess scandal and which has Nathan Fielder attached to direct. —Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2024

All of the lender’s locations — which sprawled across the northeast United States— reopened last Saturday as branches of Fulton Bank, which scooped up almost all of Republic First Bank’s deposits and assets. —Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 2 May 2024

Nearby, backhoes scooped up sections of the bridge’s roadbed into a pile that had jagged pieces of rebar hanging off it. —Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2024

Central banks led by China have been scooping up gold at unprecedented levels since 2022 in an effort to diversify away from the dollar reserve system. —Yvonne Yue Li, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2024

Then scoop up these fabric storage bags to get through the spring cleaning season with ease. —Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024