/skuːp/
OriginFrom 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.
- 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.”
“"We may get a scoop, if we are lucky. You'll be there in any case, so you'll just give us a pretty full report."”
“The problem is that the public, disobediently giggling over their social media accounts, reckon they’ve already got the scoop without needing to see the film.”
- 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.
“Some had lain in the scoop of the rock.”
- 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.
- ScotlandThe 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.
“This brings the scoop into play as additional wetted surface and slows the board due to its fore-and-aft curvature”
“[T]he scoop or upward curvature in the front or nose section of a board is designed to keep the board from diving under the surface of the water when the surfer is catching a wave.”
- A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
- dated, slangA haul of money made through speculation.
- 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.”
- transitiveTo 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.”
“Their first clear opportunity duly came courtesy of a mistake from Russell Martin, who was hustled off the ball by Bale, but the midfielder scooped his finish well over the top as he bore down on the ”
- transitiveTo make hollow; to dig out.
“I tried scooping a hole in the sand with my fingers.”
- transitiveTo report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
“The paper across town scooped them on the City Hall scandal.”
- oftenTo begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
- slangTo pick (someone) up
“You have a car. Can you come and scoop me?”
- slangTo win the entire pot in a hand in which the pot was split.
Formsscoops(plural) · scoops(present, singular, third-person) · scooping(participle, present) · scooped(participle, past) · scooped(past)