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scoop (sk

a. A shovellike utensil, usually having a deep curved dish and a short handle: a flour scoop.

b. The amount that such a utensil can hold.

a. A thick-handled cuplike utensil for dispensing balls of ice cream or other semisoft food, often having a sweeping band in the cup that is levered by the thumb to free the contents.

b. A portion of food gathered with this utensil.

3. A ladle; a dipper.

4. An implement for bailing water from a boat.

5. A narrow, spoon-shaped instrument for surgical extraction in cavities or cysts.

6. The bucket or shovel, as of a dredge or backhoe.

7. A hollow area; a cavity.

8. An opening, as on the body of a motor vehicle, by which a fluid is directed inward: "The [sports car] has . . . enough scoops and spoilers to get you a citation just standing still" Mark Weinstein.

9. A scooping movement or action.

10. Informal An exclusive news story acquired by luck or initiative before a competitor.

11. Informal Current information or details: What's the scoop on the new neighbors?

tr.v. scooped, scoop·ing, scoops

1. To take up or dip into with or as if with a scoop.

2. To hollow out by digging.

3. To gather or collect swiftly and unceremoniously; grab: scoop up a handful of jelly beans.

4. Informal To top or outmaneuver (a competitor) in acquiring and publishing an important news story.

[Middle English scope, from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German schpe, bucket for bailing water.]

scooper n.

scoopful n.

scoop

left to right: flour and ice cream scoops

scoop

Noun

1. a spoonlike tool with a deep bowl, used for handling loose or soft materials such as flour or ice cream

2. the deep shovel of a mechanical digger

3. the amount taken up by a scoop

4. the act of scooping or dredging

5. a news story reported in one newspaper before all the others

Verb

1. (often foll. by up)to take up and remove (something) with or as if with a scoop

2. scoop out to hollow out with or as if with a scoop

3. to beat (rival newspapers) in reporting a news item

4. to win (a prize, a large sum of money, etc) [Germanic]

Scoop an amount of some items obtained in a large quantity, as with a scoop; a piece of luck; an exclusive newspaper story.

Example: scoop of penance, 1440.

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Noun	1.	scoop - the quantity a scoop will hold scoopful containerful - the quantity that a container will hold
	2.	scoop - a hollow concave shape made by removing something pocket concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature - a shape that curves or bends inward
	3.	scoop - a news report that is reported first by one news organization; "he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials" exclusive news report, write up, account, report, story - a short account of the news; "the report of his speech"; "the story was on the 11 o'clock news"; "the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious"
	4.	scoop - street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate grievous bodily harm, liquid ecstasy, max, easy lay, Georgia home boy, goop, soap gamma hydroxybutyrate, GHB - a club drug available in liquid or powder form is taken orally (frequently combined with alcohol); used to incapacitate individuals for the commission of sexual assault and rape
	5.	scoop - the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe scoop shovel backhoe - an excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth dredge - a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed shovel - a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle
	6.	scoop - a large ladle; "he used a scoop to serve the ice cream" ladle - a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another
Verb	1.	scoop - take out or up with or as if with a scoop; "scoop the sugar out of the container" lift out, scoop up, scoop out, take up remove, take away, withdraw, take - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" dip - scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface; "dip water out of a container"
	2.	scoop - get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition" best, outdo, outflank, trump beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" outmaneuver, outmanoeuvre, outsmart - defeat by more skillful maneuvering; "The English troops outmaneuvered the Germans"; "My new supervisor knows how to outmaneuver the boss in most situations"