scoop

  • 51scoop — n 1. American the latest news, information, gossip. The term has been in use since at least the later 1970s and is often used in the phrase have the scoop on some thing/someone or give me the scoop . 2. British an alcoholic drink, especially a… …

    Contemporary slang

  • 52scoop — [skuːp] verb [T] I 1) to dig something out, or to pick something up, using an object or your curved hand He scooped some water from the stream.[/ex] 2) mainly journalism to earn or win something Advisors will scoop fees of up to one million… …

    Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 53scoop — Beat Beat, n. 1. One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him. [Colloq.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. The act of one that beats a person or thing; as: (a) (Newspaper Cant) The act of obtaining and publishing a piece of news by …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 54scoop up — verb to pick up or clear up by scooping You need to go in the backseat, scoop up all those little pieces of brain and skull. Get it out of there. said by The Wolf …

    Wiktionary

  • 55scoop — A narrow, spoonlike instrument for extracting the contents of cavities or cysts. [A.S. skopa] * * * scoop sküp n a spoon shaped surgical instrument used in extracting various materials (as pus or foreign bodies) * * * (sk p) a spoonlike… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 56scoop — [14] Scoop appears to go back ultimately to a prehistoric Germanic base *skap which originally denoted ‘chop or dig out’ (it was later extended metaphorically to ‘form’, and in that sense has given English shape). It had a variant form *skōp ,… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 57Scoop — Trying to pick someone up at a club, concert, etc. I ve been trying to scoop that girl all night …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 58Scoop — Trying to pick someone up at a club, concert, etc. I ve been trying to scoop that girl all night …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 59scoop — skuːp n. spoon, ladle; tool for scooping or digging; hollow, cavity; act of scooping or digging; quantity that fills one scoop; (Slang) exclusive news story reported by one newspaper (or television station, etc.); large profit (Slang) v. dig,… …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 60scoop — An air inlet that projects beyond the immediate surface of the aircraft structure. See air scoop …

    Aviation dictionary