scoops
noun
Meaning
- 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.
- 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).
- (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.
- To pick (someone) up
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