# scoop
## 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: /skuːp/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːp

### Noun

scoop (plural scoops)
* 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.
    an ice-cream scoop
* The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
    Use one scoop of coffee for each pot.
    I'll have one scoop of chocolate ice-cream.
* 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.
* A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
    Synonyms: dope, poop
    He listened carefully, in hopes of getting the scoop on the debate.
** 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:"We may get a scoop, if we are lucky. You'll be there in any case, so you'll just give us a pretty full report."
** 2016 November 7, Peter Bradshaw, “Allied: what happens when a film gets eclipsed by gossip”, in The Guardian‎:The problem is that the public, disobediently giggling over their social media accounts, reckon they’ve already got the scoop without needing to see the film.
* (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
* The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
* A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
** 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay:Some had lain in the scoop of the rock.
* A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
* A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
* A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
* (Scotland) The peak of a cap.
* (pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
* (surfing) The raised end of a surfboard.
** 1965, John M. Kelly, Surf and Sea, page 116:This brings the scoop into play as additional wetted surface and slows the board due to its fore-and-aft curvature
** 1977, Fred Hemmings, Surfing: Hawaii's Gift to the World of Sports, page 59:[T]he scoop or upward curvature in the front or nose section of a board is designed to keep the board from diving under the surface of the water when the surfer is catching a wave.
* (film, television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
* (slang, dated) A haul of money made through speculation.
* (music) A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.
** 1995, Music & Computers, volume 1, numbers 2-4, page 57:Jazz symbols include many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits, fall-offs, and scoops.

#### Synonyms

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

#### Derived terms

* 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

#### Translations
### Verb

scoop (third-person singular simple present scoops, present participle scooping, simple past and past participle scooped)
* (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.
** 2011 December 27, Mike Henson, “Norwich 0 - 2 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport‎:Their first clear opportunity duly came courtesy of a mistake from Russell Martin, who was hustled off the ball by Bale, but the midfielder scooped his finish well over the top as he bore down on the Norwich goal.
* (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.
    I tried scooping a hole in the sand with my fingers.
* (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.
* (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.
* (MTE, slang) To pick (someone) up
    You have a car. Can you come and scoop me?

#### Derived terms

* scoop and run
* scooped
* scooper
* scoop in
* scooping
* scoop out
* scoop the kitty
* scoop the pool
* scoop up

#### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “scoop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* Co-ops, Coops, POCOs, co-ops, coops

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English scoop.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /skup/

### Noun

scoop m (plural scoops)
* 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: /ˈskup/
* Rhymes: -up

### Noun

scoop m (invariable)
* (journalism) scoop (news learned and reported before anyone else)

### Further reading

* scoop (giornalismo) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{it}$

### Anagrams

* scopo, scopò