Meaning of shoop | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. The fruit of the rose; rosehip.
   Northern-England
3. Used as a singular form of sheep: an individual sheep.
   humorous, slang
4. An image that has been modified using Adobe Photoshop or similar image-manipulation software to produce a misleading impression; an instance of amateur, petty fauxtography.
   Internet

Equivalents

Examples

“I thought you were a goats^([sic – meaning goat]) not a shoop.”

“The sheep in Belgium have no hoof and mouth disease because they all wear oversized rubber boots. […] The process is quite simple: with the sheep firmly planted in the boots the shepherd—let's call him Rumplestiltskin for arguement's^([sic – meaning argument's]) sake sneaks up behind the sheep (or the singular shoop) and inserts his feet in the boots behind the shoop.”

“If the plural of moose is meese the singular of sheep must be shoop.”

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