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
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.
• (tool): scooper
• (amount held by a scoop): scoopful
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
• 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. schĂĽppe, 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
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
