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scoop

n. countable
B2 Upper Intermediate US //ˈskup// UK //skˈuːp// scoop Archaic Slang

n. the latest news or information about a situation. You use this when you want to know the inside story that not everyone knows yet.

n. the latest or most exclusive information regarding a specific situation or event. Often used in journalistic or social contexts to refer to a report obtained before others.


SIMPLE

What is the scoop on the new office manager?

CONTEXTUAL

The reporter managed to get the inside scoop on the celebrity's secret wedding before any other news outlet.

COMPLEX

While the official press release was vague, the local papers were already printing the full scoop on the mayor's sudden resignation and the scandal behind it.

Synonyms
Origin

From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (“bucket for bailing water”) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (“spade”)), from Proto-Germanic skuppǭ, skuppijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, to scrape, to hack”). Cognate with Old Frisian skuppe (“shovel”), Middle Low German schōpe (“scoop, shovel”), German Low German Schüppe, Schüpp (“shovel”), German Schüppe, Schippe (“shovel, spade”). Related to English shovel.

Usage

Often used with the definite article ('the scoop') and the preposition 'on'.

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