SCOOP

scoop

(noun) a large ladle; “he used a scoop to serve the ice cream”

scoop, scoop shovel

(noun) the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe

soap, scoop, max, liquid ecstasy, grievous bodily harm, goop, Georgia home boy, easy lay

(noun) street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate

exclusive, scoop

(noun) a news report that is reported first by one news organization; “he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials”

scoop, scoopful

(noun) the quantity a scoop will hold

scoop, pocket

(noun) a hollow concave shape made by removing something

outdo, outflank, trump, best, scoop

(verb) get the better of; “the goal was to best the competition”

scoop, scoop out, lift out, scoop up, take up

(verb) take out or up with or as if with a scoop; “scoop the sugar out of the container”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

scoop (plural scoops)

Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.

The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.

The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.

A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.

(automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.

The digging attachment on a front-end loader.

A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.

• J. R. Drake

A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.

A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.

A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

(Scotland) The peak of a cap.

(pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.

Synonyms

• (tool): scooper

• (amount held by a scoop): scoopful

Verb

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

(transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.

(transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.

(transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).

(music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.

(slang) To pick (someone) up

Anagrams

• Co-ops, Coops, POCOs, co-ops, coops

Source: Wiktionary

Scoop, n. Etym: [OE. scope, of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. skopa, akin to D. schop a shovel, G. schüppe, and also to E. shove. See Shovel.]

1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.

2. A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.

3. (Surg.)

Definition: A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.

4. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow. Some had lain in the scoop of the rock. J. R. Drake.

5. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

6. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling. Scoop net, a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river.

– Scoop wheel, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.

Scoop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scooping.] Etym: [OE. scopen. See Scoop, n.]

1. To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out. He scooped the water from the crystal flood. Dryden.

2. To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.

3. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation. Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to hold above a pint. Arbuthnot.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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