Definition of Scrooped

1. Verb. (past of scroop) ¹

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Definition of Scrooped

1. scroop [v] - See also: scroop

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrooped

scrolltexts
scrollwise
scrollwork
scrollworks
scrolly
scrooch
scrooched
scrooches
scrooching
scrooge-like
scrooged
scrooges
scrooging
scroop
scrooped (current term)
scrooping
scroops
scrootch
scrootched
scrootches
scrootching
scrophula
scrophulae
scrophularia
scrophulariaceous
scrophulas

Literary usage of Scrooped

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1904)
"We could count the rivets in her plates as we scrooped by, and the little drops of dew gathered below them. " Wonder why they're always barks — always steel ..."

2. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research by Society for Psychical Research (1888)
"It was a water meter, and somehow the valve had got rusty, and every time so many feet of gas had passed through the meter the valve went over, and scrooped ..."

3. An Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope (1879)
"... of Lady scrooped future hopes. Lady Scroope and Lady Sophia would each have thought that it was wicked to do so. But the two women bad been fussy, ..."

4. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1904)
"We could count the rivet« in her plates as we scrooped by, and the little drops of dew gathered below them. " Wonder why they're always barques— always ..."

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