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—scooper, n./skoohp/, n.1. a ladle or ladlelike utensil, esp. a small, deep-sided shovel with a short, horizontal handle, for taking up flour, sugar, etc.2. a utensil composed of a palm-sized hollow hemisphere attached to a horizontal handle, for dishing out ice cream or other soft foods.3. a hemispherical portion of food as dished out by such a utensil: two scoops of chocolate ice cream.4. the bucket of a dredge, steam shovel, etc.5. Surg. a spoonlike apparatus for removing substances or foreign objects from the body.6. a hollow or hollowed-out place.7. the act of ladling, dipping, dredging, etc.8. the quantity held in a ladle, dipper, shovel, bucket, etc.9. a news item, report, or story first revealed in one paper, magazine, newscast, etc.; beat.10. Informal. news, information, or details, esp. as obtained from experience or an immediate source: What's the scoop on working this machine?11. a gathering to oneself or lifting with the arms or hands.12. Informal. a big haul, as of money.13. Television, Motion Pictures. a single large floodlight shaped like a flour scoop.v.t.14. to take up or out with or as if with a scoop.15. to empty with a scoop.16. to form a hollow or hollows in.17. to form with or as if with a scoop.18. to get the better of (other publications, newscasters, etc.) by obtaining and publishing or broadcasting a news item, report, or story first: They scooped all the other dailies with the story of the election fraud.19. to gather up or to oneself or to put hastily by a sweeping motion of one's arms or hands: He scooped the money into his pocket.v.i.20. to remove or gather something with or as if with a scoop: to scoop with a ridiculously small shovel.[1300-50; (n.) ME scope < MD schope; (v.) ME scopen, deriv. of the n.]
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Universalium. 2010.
