Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which scoops; specifically, a tool used by engravers on wood for cleaning out the white parts of a block. It somewhat resembles a small chisel, but is rounded underneath instead of being flat.
- noun The scooping avoset: so called from the peculiar shape of the bill.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, scoops.
- noun (Zoöl.) The avocet; -- so called because it scoops up the mud to obtain food.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who scoops.
- noun Something that scoops.
- noun The
avocet , a bird that scoops up the mud to obtain food.
Etymologies
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Examples
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You find the plastic bins in storage and the scooper is plunged into the small cubes inside the training room ice machine.
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You find the plastic bins in storage and the scooper is plunged into the small cubes inside the training room ice machine.
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You find the plastic bins in storage and the scooper is plunged into the small cubes inside the training room ice machine.
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She made a dart for the "scooper" -- a heavy china cup which had been smashed in so fortunate a manner as to be ideally fitted for emptying ore by hand.
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Yeah, that was a review sent in by a "scooper" wasn't it?
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my, my how things change very quickly. what has happened to the world cup self apointed pin up boy and mouth almighty. three days and not a word from scooper cooper. maybe he has a bad dose of lock jaw, no doubt after the wontabees score a a few points over poor old usa his bottom jaw will hit over drive again, what a goose
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De "scooper" Kyle heeft naar aanleiding van Harry Potter 7.1 een review geschreven en verspreid via het net.
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Significantly for scooper pros, the 2007-2008 survey asked, for the first time, if dog owners "would be interested" in hiring a cleanup service, and 10% said yes.
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Perhaps the Fox Network could find a poop/er scooper company to advertise on their network.
Think Progress » Apple and other advertisers have ‘abandoned’ Fox News because of Glenn Beck.
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John DeSio Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., left, holds a 'pooper scooper' during an announcement last month of a campaign to keep the borough's streets free of canine waste.
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