scoop up

scoop +‎ up

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

1. 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.

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