swoop up

1. 1.

   seize or catch with a swooping motion

   Synonymsswoop

   Broadersnatch

Questions about swoop up

What does swoop up mean?

swoop up means "seize or catch with a swooping motion".

What is another word for swoop up?

Close synonyms include swoop. 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 swoop up a common word?

swoop 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.