Sekirov Dictionary

scoop

/skuːp/

noun17

  1. Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
  2. The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
  3. A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
  4. The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
  5. A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
  6. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
  7. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
  8. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
  9. A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
  10. An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
  11. A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.
  12. A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
  13. The raised end of a surfboard.
  14. A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
  15. (rare) A group of pelicans.
  16. (Scotland) The peak of a cap.
  17. (slang, old-fashioned) A haul of money made through speculation.

verb6

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

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