scoop : Idioms & Phrases


Scoop net

  • a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river.
Webster 1913

scoop out

  • verb hollow out with a scoop
    • scoop out a melon
  • verb take out or up with or as if with a scoop
    scoop out; scoop; lift out; take up.
    • scoop the sugar out of the container
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scoop shot

  • noun a basketball shot made with an underhand scooping motion
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scoop shovel

  • noun the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe
    scoop.
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scoop up

  • verb take out or up with or as if with a scoop
    scoop out; scoop; lift out; take up.
    • scoop the sugar out of the container
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Scoop wheel

  • a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.
Webster 1913