pooper-scooper

[ poo-per-skoo-per ]

noun

1. Also called poop scooper. a small shovel or scooping device designed for use in cleaning up after a dog or other pet that has defecated on a street or sidewalk.

adjective

1. of or relating to laws, city ordinances, or the like, that require a person to use a pooper-scooper.

pooper-scooper

noun

1. a device used to remove dogs' excrement from public areas

Word History and Origins

Origin of pooper-scooper¹

1970–75; rhyming compound based on poop ², scoop ( def ), -er ¹( def )

Word History and Origins

Origin of pooper-scooper¹

C20: poop ⁴+ -er ¹+ scooper

Example Sentences

“Maybe pooper-scooper duty outside with the dog,” Donato mused.

From Seattle Times

Another pooper-scooper has joined the gaggle of thankless humps tasked with propping up both Trump's brittle ego and his failing administration.

From Salon

Yet pooper-scooper laws are now in place in cities large and small.

From Scientific American

Every national Republican has been repeatedly forced to pooper-scooper Trump's tweets and his chopper-talk hollering, turning the phrase "the president tweets a lot of things" into the new party slogan.

From Salon

He’ll also get Barr to pooper-scooper his ham-fisted cover-up along the way, and he might even turn what ought to be an indictment of the president into an indictment of Joe Biden.

From Salon