What does scoop up mean?

scoop up means "take out or up with or as if with a scoop".

What is another word for scoop up?

Close synonyms include scoop, scoop out, lift out, take up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scoop up a common word?

scoop up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Scoop up — meaning, 4 synonyms and examples

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1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
take out or up with or as if with a scoop
“scoop the sugar out of the container”
Synonymsscoop scoop out lift out take up
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