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SCOOPER
Etymology
Noun
scooper (plural scoopers)
A person who scoops.
Something that scoops.
An engraver's tool.
The avocet, a bird that scoops up the mud to obtain food.
A journalist who obtains a scoop, or exclusive.
Synonyms
• (something that scoops): scoop
Anagrams
• coopers
Source: Wiktionary
Scoop"er, n.
1. One who, or that which scoops.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The avocet; -- so called because it scoops up the mud to obtain food.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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