scoop

Meanings

Noun

• Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
• The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
• The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
• A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
• An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
• The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
• A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
• A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
• A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
• A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
• The peak of a cap.
• A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
• The raised end of a surfboard.
• A kind of floodlight with a reflector.

Verb

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

Related

Similar words

• scooper
• scoopful

Origin

• , from Proto-Germanic *skuppǭ, *skuppijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep-..
• Cognate with Old Frisian skuppe, Middle Low German schōpe, German Low German Schüppe, Schüpp, German Schüppe, Schippe. Related to English shovel.