scoop

== English == === Etymology === 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, Japanese スコップ. === Pronunciation === enPR: sko͞op (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /skuːp/ (Standard Southern British) IPA(key): /skʉwp/ (General American) IPA(key): /skup/ (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /skʉːp/ (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /skʉp/ Rhymes: -uːp === Noun === scoop (plural scoops) Any cup-shaped 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. Synonyms: dope, poop (automotive) 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. (Scotland) The peak of a cap. (pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another. (surfing) The raised end of a surfboard. (film, television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector. (slang, dated) A haul of money made through speculation. (music) A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch. ==== Synonyms ==== (tool): scooper (amount held by a scoop): scoopful ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === scoop (third-person singular simple present scoops, present participle scooping, simple past and past participle scooped) (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop. (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out. (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else). (music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music. Coordinate term: doit (MTE, slang) To pick (someone) up (poker slang) To win the entire pot in a hand in which the pot was split. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === === Anagrams === Co-ops, Coops, POCOs, co-ops, coops == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from English scoop. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /skup/ === Noun === scoop m (plural scoops) scoop (news learned and reported before anyone else) === Further reading === “scoop”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Italian == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English scoop. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈskup/ Rhymes: -up === Noun === scoop m (invariable) (journalism) scoop (news learned and reported before anyone else) === Further reading === scoop (giornalismo) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it === Anagrams === scopo, scopò == Spanish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /esˈkup/ [esˈkup] Rhymes: -up IPA(key): /ˈskup/ [ˈskup] Rhymes: -up Syllabification: scoop === Noun === scoop m (plural scoops) news scoop === Further reading === Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “scoop”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA