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noun
1.
a ladle or ladlelike utensil, especially a small, deep-sided shovel with a short, horizontal handle, for taking up flour, sugar, etc.
2.
a utensil composed of a palm-sized hollow hemisphere attached to a horizontal handle, for dishing out ice cream or other soft foods.
3.
a hemispherical portion of food as dished out by such a utensil: two scoops of chocolate ice cream.
4.
the bucket of a dredge, steam shovel, etc.
5.
EXPANDSurgery. a spoonlike apparatus for removing substances or foreign objects from the body.
6.
a hollow or hollowed-out place.
7.
the act of ladling, dipping, dredging, etc.
8.
the quantity held in a ladle, dipper, shovel, bucket, etc.
9.
Journalism. a news item, report, or story first revealed in one paper, magazine, newscast, etc.; beat.
10.
Informal. news, information, or details, especially as obtained from experience or an immediate source: What's the scoop on working this machine?
11.
a gathering to oneself or lifting with the arms or hands.
12.
Informal. a big haul, as of money.
13.
COLLAPSETelevision, Movies. a single large floodlight shaped like a flour scoop.
verb (used with object)
14.
to take up or out with or as if with a scoop.
15.
to empty with a scoop.
16.
to form a hollow or hollows in.
17.
to form with or as if with a scoop.
18.
EXPANDto get the better of (other publications, newscasters, etc.) by obtaining and publishing or broadcasting a news item, report, or story first: They scooped all the other dailies with the story of the election fraud.
19.
COLLAPSEto gather up or to oneself or to put hastily by a sweeping motion of one's arms or hands: He scooped the money into his pocket.
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Scooping
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
verb (used without object)
20.
to remove or gather something with or as if with a scoop: to scoop with a ridiculously small shovel.
Origin:
1300–50; (noun) Middle English scope < Middle Dutch schōpe; (v.) Middle English scopen, derivative of the noun
1300–50; (noun) Middle English scope < Middle Dutch schōpe; (v.) Middle English scopen, derivative of the noun
Related forms
scoop·er, noun
out·scoop, verb (used with object)
un·der·scoop, noun
un·der·scoop, verb (used with object)
un·scooped, adjective
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scoop
early 14c., "utensil for bailing out" (n.), also (v.) "to bail out;" from M.Du. schope "bucket for bailing water," from W.Gmc. *skopo (cf. M.L.G. schope "ladle"), from P.Gmc. *skop-, from PIE *(s)kep- "to cut, to scrape, to hack." Also from Low Ger. scheppen (v.) "to draw water," from P.Gmc. *skuppon,
EXPANDfrom PIE root *skub- (cf. O.E. sceofl "shovel," O.S. skufla; see shove). The journalistic sense of "news published before a rival" is first recorded 1874, Amer.Eng., from earlier commercial slang sense of "appropriate so as to exclude competitors" (c.1850).
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