Akademik

scoop up

verb

take out or up with or as if with a scoop (Freq. 3)

- scoop the sugar out of the container

• Derivationally related forms: ↑scoop (for: ↑scoop)

• Hypernyms: ↑remove, ↑take, ↑take away, ↑withdraw

• Hyponyms: ↑dip

• Verb Frames:

- Somebody ——s something

- Something ——s something

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scoop up [phrasal verb]

scoop up (something) or scoop (something) up informal : to take or buy (something) in a quick and eager way

Customers scooped up [=scarfed up] the free samples.

— see also ↑scoop 1b (above), 2

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Main Entry: ↑scoop

Useful english dictionary. 2012.