scoop up

English

Etymology

scoop +‎ up

Verb

scoop up (third-person singular simple present scoops up, present participle scooping up, simple past and past participle scooped up)

to pick up or clear up by scooping
- 1994, Pulp Fiction:
  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
- 2003, J. Flash, An American Savage
  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 inbe- tween my fingers.

Translations

pick up by scooping

German: aufschaufeln, zusammenschaufeln
Maori: koko

Turkish: kaldırmak (tr), kapmak (tr), kepçe ile çıkarmak, kucaklamak (tr), toplamak (tr)

Anagrams

coops up