Crossword clues for scooper
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scooper \Scoop"er\, n.
One who, or that which, scoops.
(Zo["o]l.) The avocet; -- so called because it scoops up the mud to obtain food.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "one who scoops;" 1837 as a tool for scooping, agent noun from scoop (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who scoops. 2 Something that scoops. 3 The avocet, a bird that scoops up the mud to obtain food.
Usage examples of "scooper".
He intended to get a secret court order authorizing him to use the Scooper program.
It helped greatly in manipulating the Scooper program installed in the special room, accessible only by authorization of the SAIC and intended for use under court order.
Dee a surreptitious wink, letting her know that they would put the Scooper on Lisanne the next day.
The Scooper had traced funds, supposedly well washed, but transparent to its encompassing grasp.
The money had been paid to Lisanne through devious channels, but the Scooper left no doubt: the trail led back to a slush fund maintained at the highest corporate levels by Genetechnics.
Like Julie, he had received payments from Genetechnics, but this time the Scooper was able to ferret out the reason for the payoff.
They intended to hit Julie with every scrap of information the Scooper had turned up then imply they had even more.
Allen with the scooper, dripping melted ice cream onto the tablecloth.
He found a hole in the pattern where a civilian ship had been blown out of existence, and called in a military scooper to clean up the hot debris.
Bat had a latticework of docks for the scooper ships that traveled to the surface.
Robots ferried the oxygen containers to the scooper ships, which carried it up to the Bats.
You and the pilot Michael Anastas endangered yourselves and risked losing a needed scooper vessel instead of waiting to hear of our plans.
The people remaining there could hold out for at least another year, and if necessary would shut down the automatic flights of the scooper ships.
The ore-scoopers had dumped a load of cinnabar over one of the pestle pounders, and the offended party was chasing the scoopers around, trying to brain them with the massive marble pestle.
And we'll transport additional crew in the flitters-with the extra egg scoopers we should be able to really clean up!