to scooby
9.9
To understand something difficult or confusing
- verb
- Slang
- It took me some time, but I scooby how to fix the issue on my own.
Examples
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Even though the instructions were complicated, she managed to scooby the solution.
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After hours of discussion, I finally scooby what he was trying to convey.
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They play and you keep on Scooby because you trying to see what they going to say.
Synonyms
to puzzle out
vsto scooby
To think hard to find the answer to a difficult problem
is broader, meaning to understand something not only by long thinking
to unriddle
vsto scooby
To find the answer to a riddle or mystery
focuses on grasping meaning rather than explaining mysteries
Antonyms
How Clear
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb scooby meaning 'to understand' comes from the noun scooby for 'clue', because if you 'get a scooby' you get a clue and that idea became the action. That's why to scooby something is to figure it out or understand it.