Scoops

n.

Heard in Cork, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Clare and Dublin

Pints of beer or other alcoholic drinks.

We going for a couple of scoops

Posh English

Shall we repair for a modest pair of fermented beverages?

Same phrase, other counties

• Kilkenny
• Tipperary
• Clare
• Dublin

Related terms

• Few scoopsA few alcoholic drinks.
• A few scoopsAn invitation to join for drinks in the pub.
• Snoopy-woopsAlcoholic drinks, particularly pints of beer.
• Six o' one half a dozen of the otherIt is much the same either way; six of one and half a dozen of the other.
• PottagePints of beer.
• To excercise the elbowTo go out for a few pints of beer.