English Explanatory Dictionary

scoop

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
  2. The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
  3. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
  4. A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
  5. An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
  6. The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
  7. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
  8. A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
  9. A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
  10. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
  11. The peak of a cap.
  12. A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
verb
  1. To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
  2. To make hollow; to dig out.
  3. To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
  4. To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
  5. To pick (someone) up
  6. To win the entire pot in a hand in which the pot was split.

Pronunciation

sko͞op /skuːp/ /skʉwp/ /skup/ en-us-scoop.ogg /skʉːp/ /skʉp/

Word forms

scoop scoops scooping scooped

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.

Synonyms

scooper scoopful dope poop

Derived words

apple scoop butter scoop cheese scoop disher scoop horse scoop ice-cream scoop ice cream scoop inside scoop paddle scoop parisienne scoop poop scoop scoop bonnet scoop driver scoopful scoopless scooplike scoop neck scoop neckline scoop net scoop-net scoop shot scoopwheel scoop wheel scoopy snow scoop sugar scoop pooper scoop scoop and run scooped scooper scoop in scooping scoop out scoop the kitty scoop the pool scoop up

Translations

Finnish: skuupata
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