Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
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. 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
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