scoop up
verbEtymology From scoop + up.
1
to pick up or clear up by scooping
- Use this to scoop up the ice cream.
- 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 Wolf1994, Pulp Fiction, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
1 more example
- 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.
- 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
To grab or pick up something by accident.
- We must've scooped up a cold virus along with those kids.