Scoop
noun, verb, slang ·Very common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 1 Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
"She kept a scoop in the dog food."
- 2 a large ladle wordnet
- 3 The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
"Use one scoop of coffee for each pot."
- 4 the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe wordnet
- 5 The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
"with a quick scoop, she fished the frog out of the pond."
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- 6 street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate wordnet
- 7 A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
"He listened carefully, in hopes of getting the scoop on the debate."
- 8 a news report that is reported first by one news organization wordnet
- 9 An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- 10 the quantity a scoop will hold wordnet
- 11 The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- 12 a hollow concave shape made by removing something wordnet
- 13 A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
"Some had lain in the scoop of the rock."
- 14 A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- 15 A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- 16 A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- 17 The peak of a cap. Scotland
- 18 A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
- 19 The raised end of a surfboard.
"This brings the scoop into play as additional wetted surface and slows the board due to its fore-and-aft curvature"
- 20 A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
- 21 A haul of money made through speculation. dated, slang
- 22 A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.
"Jazz symbols include many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits, fall-offs, and scoops."
- 1 To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop. transitive
"He used both hands to scoop water and splash it on his face."
- 2 get the better of wordnet
- 3 To make hollow; to dig out. transitive
"I tried scooping a hole in the sand with my fingers."
- 4 take out or up with or as if with a scoop wordnet
- 5 To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else). transitive
"The paper across town scooped them on the City Hall scandal."
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- 6 To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music. often
- 7 To pick (someone) up slang
"You have a car. Can you come and scoop me?"
- 8 To win the entire pot in a hand in which the pot was split. slang
Antonyms
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More examples"What's the scoop on your new boyfriend?"
Etymology
From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (“bucket for bailing water”) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (“spade”)), from Proto-Germanic *skuppǭ, *skuppijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, to scrape, to hack”). Cognate with Old Frisian skuppe (“shovel”), Middle Low German schōpe (“scoop, shovel”), German Low German Schüppe, Schüpp (“shovel”), German Schüppe, Schippe (“shovel, spade”). Related to English shovel.