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scoop I. \ˈsküp\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English scope, from Middle Dutch schope, schoepe; akin to Middle Low German schōpe scoop, Middle High German schuobe scoop, Old High German skepfen to form, shape, create, draw up water — more at shape 1. : any of various containers or utensils for holding or removing liquid or loose materials: as a. : a large ladle : a vessel with a long handle used for dipping or skimming liquids < a scoop for bailing a rowboat > b. : a deep shovel or similar but smaller and handheld implement for digging out and dipping or for shoveling < a coal scoop > < a flour scoop > < a grain scoop > < a measuring scoop > c. : a hemispherical utensil with a handle for dipping out soft food (as ice cream or mashed potatoes) d. : a small utensil often with a spoon-shaped blade for cutting or gouging; specifically : a spoon-shaped surgical instrument used in extracting various materials (as debris, pus, foreign bodies) e. : a receptacle with high curved sides for holding a loose bulk commodity on a weighing scale f. : the bucket of a dredging machine or an earth-moving vehicle; also : an earth-moving vehicle having a bucket g. : cranberry rake 2. a. : the amount contained in a scoop < a scoop of ice cream > b. : an amount of something obtained in large quantity as if with a scoop (as a large profit in speculation) < had made a huge scoop on the stock exchange — Max Beerbohm > 3. : scoop net 4. a. : the action of taking with a scoop or ladle : a motion with or like that made with a scoop < off these volcanic islands another scoop is made for bait — Time > b. : the act of scooping or the musical effect achieved by it : portamento < with an occasional hoot and a more than occasional scoop to betray the toll time has taken of her voice — Irving Kolodin > c. (1) : the taking in of all the cards on the table in one play in casino (2) : scopa d. : a field hockey stroke executed with the hands apart and the blade of the stick laid back to lift the ball 5. a. : a place hollowed out : a basin-shaped cavity : hollow < small city rests on a scoop between rocky hills — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union > b. : a shallow depression in the earth prepared by various birds as a foundation for their nest c. : a funnel-shaped opening for channeling a fluid (as air or oil) into a desired path — compare air scoop d. : a usually multiple unit and floodlight with a more or less shovel-shaped reflector used especially in movie and television studios 6. a. : information especially of immediate interest or significance < you heard the hot scoop — J.A.Michener > < give him the scoop on the identification — J.K.Harris > b. : an exclusive news report : beat 10b < the story was a scoop by just a few hours — Stephen Watts > < men whose self-restraint will give way before their desire for a scoop — Time > 7. : a rounded and usually low-cut neckline on a woman's garment II. verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English scopen, from scope, n. transitive verb 1. a. : to take out or up with or as if with a scoop : dip < scoop sugar out of a barrel > < scoop the center out of a melon > < scooped up another mug of flip — Kenneth Roberts > < every time she rolled to leeward, she would scoop up the South Atlantic Ocean — H.A.Chippendale > < scooped up a handful of the salty earth — Marion Wilhelm > b. : to gather, take, or get sometimes surreptitiously in a more or less wholesale manner as if with a scoop : pick up < scooped up a couple of cakes of soap from the hotel — Gilbert Millstein > < scooping his books up off the ground — Grace Metalious > c. : to lift (the ball) into the air with the stick without taking a preliminary swing in field hockey 2. : to empty by lading < to scoop a boat dry > 3. : to make hollow : dig out : excavate < the earth had been scooped away — Willa Cather > 4. a. : to make or shape by or as if by scooping — often used with out < water that by slow attrition had scooped out this wide channel — P.E.More > b. : to cut (material) away along a curved line; specifically : to make (a garment) with a scoop neck or neckline < a scooped dress > 5. a. : beat 4j < let the radio stations consistently scoop the press, or vice versa — Daniel Melcher & Nancy Larrick > b. : to obtain (a news story) as a beat c. : to win against : beat 4d < next film … intended to scoop the screen adaptation of the year's biggest stage hit — Lewis Jacobs > 6. : to glide from (one tone) to another tone especially in singing so as to sound the intermediate pitches or to begin (a tone) with a slide to the correct pitch intransitive verb 1. : to do lading, hollowing, or gathering with or as if with a scoop 2. : to scoop a tone < the habit of sliding or scooping is another undesirable feature of singing — Sergius Kagen > < she scoops, strains for notes — Robert Evett > |