2. Verb. (third-person singular of scoop) ¹
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Definition of Scoops
1. scoop [v] - See also: scoop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scoops
Literary usage of Scoops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bygone Days in Chicago: Recollections of the "Garden City" of the Sixties by Frederick Francis Cook (1910)
"... all manner of atrocious habits through a mania for "scoops." That its old-time
Gotham equivalent "beats" is a far milder form of journalistic obsession, ..."
2. Through the Dark Continent Or the Sources of the Nile Around the Great Lakes by Henry Morton Stanley (1878)
"However, cast- i-jr the great stone anchor of the f-'4t, canoe after canoe was
attached to us, and leaving twenty-six in scoops. ..."
3. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers (1840)
"... scoops out for itself a wide and deep bed as far as Legnago, and a few leagues
beyond that town ceases to be cramped between banks, and can spread ..."
4. Copper Work: An Illustrated Text Book for Teachers and Students in the by Augustus Foster Rose (1908)
"SPOONS, SUGAR TONGS AND TEA scoops. These exercises are easily carried out after
a little experience. No steps are taken that have not already been ..."
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