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scope (on) someone
Sl. to evaluate a member of the opposite sex visually. He scoped every girl who came in the door. He wouldn't like it if somebody scoped on him. Or would he?

scope someone or something out

Sl. to look someone or something over; to check someone or something out. Hey, scope the new car out! Dave was scoping out all the girls.
See also: out


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Getting quality pictures in digiscoping is very much the same as getting quality pictures in any other type of photography Spotting scopes are terrestrial telescopes used by those who go bird watching to get a close-up view of birds.
Riflescopes have to tolerate stuff that binoculars and spotting scopes don't, such as recoil.
Sniper rifles have mildots on both horizontal and vertical crosshairs so they can measure height as well as width through their scopes.
 
 
 
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