scoop

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English

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.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sko͞op, IPA^(key): /skuːp/
• Rhymes: -uːp

Noun

scoop (plural scoops)

1. Any cup- 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.

   Synonyms: dope, poop
5. (automotive) 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. (Scotland) The peak of a cap.
12. (pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
13. (surfing) The raised end of a surfboard.
14. (film, television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
15. (slang, dated) A haul of money made through speculation.
16. (music) A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.

Synonyms

• (tool): scooper
• (amount held by a scoop): scoopful

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Verb

scoop (third-person singular simple present scoops, present participle scooping, simple past and past participle scooped)

1. (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
2. (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.

3. (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).

4. (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.
5. (MTE, slang) To pick (someone) up

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Anagrams

• Co-ops, Coops, POCOs, co-ops, coops

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English scoop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skup/

Noun

scoop m (plural scoops)

1. scoop (news learned and reported before anyone else)

Further reading

• “scoop”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English scoop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskup/
• Rhymes: -up

Noun

scoop m (invariable)

1. (journalism) scoop (news learned and reported before anyone else)

Further reading

• scoop (giornalismo) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Anagrams

• scopo, scopò