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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Who will scoop up the most gramophone trophies on music’s biggest night? —

Tiffany Kelly, EW.com, 3 Feb. 2025 Earlier in January, investors scooped up more than $150 million in Palantir shares. —

Brian Evans, CNBC, 3 Feb. 2025 The good vibes Harris tried to capture in the early days of her campaign drained away and were scooped up by the resurgent GOP. —

Max Thornberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Feb. 2025 Then there are the shoes, the manure, even thousands of dollars in cash (which alert bystanders scooped up and ran off with handfuls, by the way). —

Jeff Kleinman, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for scoop up