flipper vs scoop

flipper

noun
  • A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play. 

  • Television remote control, clicker. 

  • A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce. 

  • A kind of false tooth, usually temporary. 

  • A small flat used to support a larger one. 

  • Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit. 

  • Someone who flips in any other sense, for example throwing a coin. 

  • In marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming. 

  • A flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming. 

  • A kitchen spatula. 

verb
  • To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water. 

scoop

noun
  • A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another. 

  • Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material. 

  • An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine. 

  • A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow. 

  • A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies. 

  • A sweep; a stroke; a swoop. 

  • A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else. 

  • A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients. 

  • The raised end of a surfboard. 

  • The digging attachment on a front-end loader. 

  • The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling. 

  • The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop. 

  • The peak of a cap. 

  • A kind of floodlight with a reflector. 

verb
  • To pick (someone) up 

  • To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else). 

  • To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop. 

  • To make hollow; to dig out. 

  • To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music. 

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