inside scoop

English

Noun

inside scoop (countable and uncountable, plural inside scoops)

1. (informal, idiomatic) The newest, exclusive, or even confidential information on someone or something, especially when it is not typically well-known or accessible to the general public.
   • 1952, Patients in the Iowa State Sanitorium for Treatment of Tuberculosis at Oakdale, Iowa (publisher), The Iowa Stethoscope - Volumes 30-31, page 24:

     I welcome the opportunity to give you the inside scoop on the raunchiest crew of lungers who ever rode a mattress.

   • 1954, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department (publisher), Monthly Newsletter - Volume 18, page 31:

     Whether you have heard of the center or not, or taken some of its courses, you may be interested in getting some of the inside scoop.

   • 1969, New York Magazine, page 42:

     Having spent weeks talking to middle-class pot-smokers (over 30) all around the city, I traveled to the tip of Manhattan for the inside scoop from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics & Dangerous Drugs.

   • 1974, Ebony Magazine, page 123:

     A lot of young men are getting the inside scoop about the Air Force Academy from the outside.