scoop up

present singular third person scoops up · participle present scooping up · participle past scooped up · past scooped up

1. to pick up or clear up by scooping

   Use this to scoop up the ice cream.

   2 more examples

   You need to go in the backseat, scoop up all those little pieces of brain and skull. Get it out of there. -- said by The Wolf

   1994, Pulp Fiction, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

   I bent down and with both hands I scooped up as much of this pissshit as I could. The green and brown clump felt like Jello as it dripped down all over my clothes. It was slithering through inbetween^([sic]) my fingers.

   2003, J. Flash, An American Savage

2. To take enthusiastically.

   We scooped up every one of their albums as soon as they were released.

   1 more example

   You put suntan lotion in a bottle and call it Joe's Suntan Lotion and people won't buy it. But you put the exact same product in the bottle, change the label to Coppertone and raise the price, and they'll scoop it right up.

   2016 January 2, Gary Provost, Baffled in Boston, Crossroad Press

3. transitiveTo grab or pick up something by accident.

   We must've scooped up a cold virus along with those kids.