scoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sko͞op
ipa: /skuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: scoops
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.
Senses: examples: text: She kept a scoop in the dog food.
text: an ice-cream scoop
glosses: Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
examples: text: Use one scoop of coffee for each pot.
text: I'll have one scoop of chocolate ice-cream.
glosses: The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
examples: text: with a quick scoop, she fished the frog out of the pond.
glosses: The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
examples: text: He listened carefully, in hopes of getting the scoop on the debate.
text: "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."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: 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.
ref: 2016 November 7, Peter Bradshaw, “Allied: what happens when a film gets eclipsed by gossip”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: dope
poop
glosses: A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
glosses: The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
examples: text: Some had lain in the scoop of the rock.
ref: 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay:
glosses: A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
glosses: A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
glosses: A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
glosses: A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
glosses: The peak of a cap.
qualifier: pinball
glosses: A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
examples: text: This brings the scoop into play as additional wetted surface and slows the board due to its fore-and-aft curvature
ref: 1965, John M. Kelly, Surf and Sea, page 116:
text: [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.
ref: 1977, Fred Hemmings, Surfing: Hawaii's Gift to the World of Sports, page 59:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: The raised end of a surfboard.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
glosses: A haul of money made through speculation.
examples: text: Jazz symbols include many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits, fall-offs, and scoops.
ref: 1995, Music & Computers, volume 1, numbers 2-4, page 57:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.
Synonyms: sense: tool
word: scooper
sense: amount held by a scoop
word: 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