scoop
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2.1
- noun
- /skuːp/
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cuchara
- The recipe calls for one scoop of flour for the cake.
So one of these do a big scoop, fill it right to the top.
- So one of these do a big scoop, fill it right to the top.
- Or maybe I'll just take this scoop and this could be his little wings.
- Jets have a scoop where they scoop up oxygen from the air.
- But the garden claws or leaf scoops, I guess, as they're called, are they worth it?
- But and I love the little they have a like a scoop spoon.
- This is a very light porta filter and the tamper slash scoop is awful.
Examples
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What I'd like is a scoop of this ice cream before going back down.
Fiction book (1998) -
So one of these do a big scoop, fill it right to the top.
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Let me just point the camera down a little bit and then one scoop in there.
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I have a scoop here.
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Could you pass me the scoop?
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Murphy tossed another scoop of coal onto the fire.
Fiction book (1991) -
We have dessert crepes or a scoop of pie.
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The fruit salad was canned but served with a little scoop of lime sherbet, which was refreshing, everyone agreed.
Fiction book (1999) -
Armstrong was using an aluminum scoop fitted into an extension handle to collect samples of rock without bending over.
Fiction book (1992) -
Could you please pass me the scoop so I can serve the ice cream?
Synonyms
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2.7
A small bowl-shaped tool used to lift and serve soft foods like ice cream
A large deep bucket on a machine used to lift and move dirt
Compounds
- Literature
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5.5
Secret information that only a few people know about a company or event
- Jargon
A close-range basketball shot made with an underhand scooping motion over a defender
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Scoop originally named a small bowl or ladle (from old Norse skopa), the kind you use like a big spoon to move food. So a scoop is also the tool with a deep curved bowl used for serving or for the bucket part of a machine.