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scoop
verb- to be the first to report a news story US
- That four-page hot-tamale sheet had scooped the A.P., the U.P., and the I.N.S., along with Reuters and Tass and all the other globe-circling know-it-all newshawks. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 167, 1946
- Does the president have a time machine? Have I been scooped on that? — Austin Powers, 1999
- (of a beer enthusiast) to drink any type of beer as a means of collecting and recording that particular brew UK
- This practice [a form of trainspotting] is often undertaken by those who also spot beer, or “scoop” on the side. — Iain Aitch, A Fete Worse Than Death, p. 55, 2003
- to kiss someone US
- — Vann Wesson, Generation X Field Guide and Lexicon, p. 146, 1997
- to arrest someone US
- “We call in his name we got to scoop him.” — John Sayles, Union Dues, p. 29, 1977
- in high-low poker, to declare for both high and low US
- — John Scarne, Scarne’s Guide to Modern Poker, p. 289, 1979
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