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单词 to scoop in
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to scoop in (or up)
a. To take or take up in large quantities; to appropriate (something) in advance of or to the exclusion of other competitors. Chiefly to scoop in (or up). Also in various extended uses; esp. to defeat, destroy, get the better of. to scoop the kitty (or pool), in Gambling, to win all the money that is staked; also transferred, to gain everything, to be completely successful. In some uses difficult to distinguish from sense 6.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)]
overcomeeOE
forecomec1000
overwieldlOE
masterc1225
overmaistrie1340
overmatcha1375
overpassa1382
surmount1390
to have the fairer (of)c1400
maistriec1400
overmasterc1425
winc1440
overc1485
bestride1526
rixlec1540
overreach1555
control1567
overmate1567
govern1593
to give (a person) the lurch1598
get1600
to gain cope of1614
top1633
to fetch overa1640
down1641
to have the whip hand (of)1680
carberry1692
to cut down1713
to be more than a match for1762
outflank1773
outmaster1799
outgeneral1831
weather1834
best1839
fore-reach1845
to beat a person at his (also her, etc.) own game1849
scoop1850
euchrec1866
bemaster1871
negotiate1888
to do down1900
to get (someone) wetc1926
lick1946
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > (as) with a shovel or scoop
skim1665
shovel1685
bale1692
scoop1850
the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > take possession of [verb (transitive)] > appropriate > in large quantities
gobble1825
scoop1850
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > win > all
to sweep the board1882
to scoop the kitty (or pool)1916
1850 W. Colton Three Years in Calif. xxxiii. 440 A faith that could scoop up whole tribes of savages,..impressing them with the conviction that submission to the padres was obedience to God.
1866 Harper's Mag. Oct. 680/1 Tell him he'll have to send this other fellow some more beans, for I've got him scooped [at draw-poker].
1867 A. D. Richardson Beyond Mississippi xi. 134Scooped’ was an importation from Wall Street. ‘I am badly scooped’ meant [in Kansas]: ‘I am used up’ or ‘defeated’.
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xlvii. 333 ‘It ain't no use. They've scooped him.’ ‘Scooped him?’ ‘Yes—death has.’
1882 J. D. McCabe New York 160 (Farmer) He runs seventy 'busses on this line, and scoops in three 'r four hundred a day.
1888 W. D. Howells Annie Kilburn xi. 118 The Irish are spreading out into the country and scooping in the farms that are not picturesque enough for the summer folks.
1901 ‘G. Douglas’ House with Green Shutters 11 They felt it..a..personal defeat that he..should scoop every chance that was going.
1903 A. Bennett Leonora vii. 194 Milly had shown a straight flush and scooped the kitty.
1903 R. Kipling Stellenbosh in Five Nations 195 The Boojers scooped the crowd, To the last survivin' bandolier an' boot.
1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle xxii. 297 We have won any way; and if Peter has had a slice of luck, we've scooped the pool.
1929 H. Maclaren Private Opinions of Brit. Blue-Jacket 100 I haves everey intentuons to make a short spich, as scoops in the old man also a fairly wheard tipe of two passingers.
1929 H. Maclaren Private Opinions of Brit. Blue-Jacket 101 This phrase from ‘scoops in the old man’ is plainly to be interpreted, by any one familiar with the ways of the fo'c'sle, as ‘we have persuaded the captain to come, also two weird passengers’.
1937 H. C. Bailey Clunk's Claimant xlvi. 315 A million to one some side-line of a next of kin would bob up and pinch their share. Josh wouldn't scoop the pool.
1939 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime v. 70 There was a bit of unpleasantness at the Ball, and they scooped me in.
1944 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 48 363 De Havilland engines—the Gipsy, Gipsy Six and Gipsy Twelve..—together with the Cirrus, have almost completely ‘scooped the pool’ for light aircraft.
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned viii. 69 There wasn't a girl..to touch her. She could walk right in and scoop the pool.
1959 Encounter Aug. 37/2 The rest of them were struggling..with razors and stakes... And soon I got scooped into the thing.
1972 P. G. Wodehouse Pearls, Girls, & Monty Bodkin ii. 27 You will give your consent to my scooping in the girl I love.
1973 ‘P. Malloch’ Kickback xxv. 164 You've scooped the pool. If you watch your step, you shouldn't have any more worries.
1976 Evening Post (Nottingham) 15 Dec. 23/9 Radford Swimming Club ended the 1976 season in fine style by scooping all but one award at the Notts. ASA Medley Team Swimming League.
1978 G. Mitchell Mingled with Venom iii. 23 Unless we all take care, that black boy the other lot adopted is going to scoop the pool.
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