How to pronounce scoop
American English pronunciation
SKOOP
- IPA
- /ˈskup/
- Syllables
- SKOOP (1 syllable)
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What scoop means
Most people know scoop in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.
A big news story that one paper gets first
In a sentence: The school paper got the scoop: the new principal had once been an astronaut.
Where it comes from: It comes from old Dutch and German words for a bucket or a shovel. Later, grabbing a news story before anyone else came to be called a scoop.
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