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scoop

UK/skuːp/ US/skʉwp/ fairly common slang
noun (6) verb (2)

noun

1.

the quantity a scoop will hold

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2.

a hollow concave shape made by removing something

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3.

a news report that is reported first by one news organization

  • “he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials”
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4.
5.

the shovel or bucket of dredge or backhoe

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6.

a large ladle

  • “he used a scoop to serve the ice cream”

verb

1.

take out or up with or as if with a scoop

  • “scoop the sugar out of the container”
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2.

get the better of

  • “the goal was to best the competition”
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Origin

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.

Phrases

  • apple scoop
  • butter scoop
  • cheese scoop
  • disher scoop
  • horse scoop
  • ice cream scoop
  • ice-cream scoop
  • inside scoop
  • pooper scoop
  • scoop and run
  • scoop in
  • scoop out

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