scoop

Meaning

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

ladle

shovel

scoop-shaped

ladle out

scoop out

Georgia home boy

easy lay

lift out

scoop shovel

draw water

spoon out

profit from

exclusive news

coconutshell ladle

extraction scoop

have the best

ellipsoidal floodlight

gouge out

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skuːp/

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.