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The single bite that proves dessert is just an excuse to hold a tiny shovel.
means A scoop is a rounded utensil for digging out portions of something soft, the act of doing so, or a single ladled portion — and, by extension, an exclusive news story dug up before anyone else.
from From Middle Dutch or Middle Low German 'schope,' a vessel for bailing water, related to the family of words around 'shape' and 'shovel' that all circle the idea of hollowing and lifting. The journalistic 'scoop' — beating rivals to a story — is a later figurative leap: you 'scoop up' the news before the competition can dig in.
- named gun
- Ice cream scoops were patented as 'disher' devices
- news origin
- Journalism's 'scoop' meant digging out stories first
- melting trick
- Antifreeze-filled handles thaw ice cream as you dig
- litter duty
- Cats get scooped; so does the law's loot
- perfect sphere
- Spring-loaded mechanism releases the dome in one twist
matt drudge drudge report — first published the clinton-lewinsky scandal in 1998, beating traditional media
ronan farrow weinstein — nbc news journalist who broke the harvey weinstein sexual assault story in october 2017