scoop

Meaning

Noun

1. Any cup-shaped 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. (Scotland) 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. (dated, slang) A haul of money made through speculation.
16. A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.

Verb

1. (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
2. (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.
3. (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
4. (often) To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
5. (slang) To pick (someone) up

Synonyms

ladle

shovel

dipper

spoon

🥄

dig

hollow

draw

scoop-shaped

ladle out

bucket

🪣

dip

lade

spade

pocket

gouge

easy lay

Georgia home boy

outdo

scoop out

bail

goop

get

dig out

serve

scoopful

best

max

dustpan

soap

🧼

liquid ecstasy

grievous bodily harm

scoop up

scoop shovel

bore

cavity

lift out

depression

trump

trough

win

beat

draw water

pothole

take up

trowel

outflank

exclusive

excavate

earn

concave

Translations

cuchara

🥄

ramasser

schöpfen

mestolo

schaufeln

louche

écope

cucharón

Schaufel

Kelle

cazo

Schöpfkelle

servir

Scoop

Spatel

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skuːp/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: scope

Cognate with Dutch: schop

Cognate with Old Frisian: skuppe

Cognate with Middle Low German: schōpe

Cognate with German: Schüppe

Cognate with English: shovel

In summary

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.

Sentences

Nicknamed " Scoop ", Oliver batted and threw left-handed .