hoovered up
Swept up eagerly
Hoovered up is the past tense of hoover up, a chiefly British expression meaning to consume or absorb something quickly and completely.
The phrase derives from the Hoover vacuum cleaner brand and suggests the same powerful suction: He hoovered up his dinner in minutes or The company hoovered up smaller competitors.
It works for food, information, resources, or anything else that can be rapidly taken in or acquired.
- devouredAte hungrily and completely
- gobbled upAte rapidly, completely
- wolfed downAte extremely fast
- vacuumedCleaned via suction
- sweptCleaned with bristles
compiled · collected · consumed · monopolized · aggregated · scooped up · snapped up · assimilated · accumulated · appropriated · inhaled · engulfed · snarfed · sucked · sucked up · retrieved · absorbed · gathered
hoovered upleft behind
Abandoned or forgotten
passed over · rejected · ignored · gave away · scattered
hoovered upskimmed
Read superficially
glossed over · ignored · tuned out · overlooked · disregarded