“scoops” is a form of
scoop
UK /skuːp/ · US /skup/ noun, verb
Forms scoops scooping scooped
- noun 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.”
- noun The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop. “Use one scoop of coffee for each pot.”
- noun 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.”
- noun A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else. “He listened carefully, in hopes of getting the scoop on the debate.”
- noun (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- noun The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- noun A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- noun A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- verb (transitive) 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.”
- verb (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out. “I tried scooping a hole in the sand with my fingers.”
- verb (transitive) 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.”
- verb (music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
- verb (MTE, slang) To pick (someone) up “You have a car. Can you come and scoop me?”
- verb (poker slang) To win the entire pot in a hand in which the pot was split.
Synonyms
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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, Japanese スコップ.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
- noun A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.
- verb To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out. He scooped the water from the crystal flood. Dryden.
- verb To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.
Etymology [OE. scope, of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. skopa, akin to D. schop a shovel, G. schüppe, and also to E. shove. See Shovel.]
Etymology [OE. scopen. See Scoop, n.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “scoop”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details