scoop.
Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
Meaning & usage
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.
an ice-cream scoop
The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
Use one scoop of coffee for each pot.
I'll have one scoop of chocolate ice-cream.
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.
A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
He listened carefully, in hopes of getting the scoop on the debate.
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.
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.
The peak of a cap.
A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
The raised end of a surfboard.
A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
A haul of money made through speculation.
A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.
A group of pelicans.
Where this word comes from
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, Japanese スコップ.
To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
He used both hands to scoop water and splash it on his face.
To make hollow; to dig out.
I tried scooping a hole in the sand with my fingers.
To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
The paper across town scooped them on the City Hall scandal.
To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
To pick (someone) up
You have a car. Can you come and scoop me?
To win the entire pot in a hand in which the pot was split.
Where this word comes from
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, Japanese スコップ.
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