WordNet
v. seize or catch with a swooping motion [syn: swoop]
Usage examples of "swoop up".
And he takes me up and we go a little way out of town and we do figure eights over the cornfields and we fly down low and we chase some steers across a pasture and we swoop up and ruffle the tops of some water oaks and we go and do a lazy ring-around at the grain elevator, and he's saying, Look at this, look at that, look what there is to see, Loretta.
Maybe she would have if she could, but she couldn't dive and swoop up his falling body.
It became airborne, the engines thrusting it in an abrupt but graceful swoop up.
Bony took a quick swoop up toward the surface, close enough to feel turbulence in the water.
He saw some of their still-mounted companions swoop up beside them, reaching down a helping hand and offering them a stirrup as they galloped further back from the front of the combat.
Down I went, down, down, and then with a swoop up again until I could see the light streaming brightly through the green water.
The girders behind the overhead lights would have been an excellent hiding place, if only one could swoop up there.