scoop

Plural: scoops

Noun

• the quantity a scoop will hold
• a hollow concave shape made by removing something
• a news report that is reported first by one news organization
  • "he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials"
• street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
• the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe
• a large ladle
  • "he used a scoop to serve the ice cream"
• Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
• The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
• The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
• A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
• An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
• The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
• A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
• A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
• A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
• A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
• The peak of a cap.
• A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
• The raised end of a surfboard.
• A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
• A haul of money made through speculation.
• A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.

Verb

Verb Forms: scooped, scooping, scoops

• To take up or remove with a scoop or similar utensil.
• take out or up with or as if with a scoop
  • "scoop the sugar out of the container"
• get the better of
• To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
• To make hollow; to dig out.
• To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
• To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
• To pick (someone) up

Examples

• an ice-cream scoop
• He listened carefully, in hopes of getting the scoop on the debate.
• He used both hands to scoop water and splash it on his face.
• I tried scooping a hole in the sand with my fingers.
• I'll have one scoop of chocolate ice-cream.
• She kept a scoop in the dog food.
• She managed to SCOOP up a triple-letter score with her last tile.
• The paper across town scooped them on the City Hall scandal.
• Use one scoop of coffee for each pot.
• with a quick scoop, she fished the frog out of the pond.
• You have a car. Can you come and scoop me?

Synonyms

best, easy lay, exclusive, Georgia home boy, goop, grievous bodily harm, lift out, liquid ecstasy, max, outdo, outflank, pocket, scoop out, scoop shovel, scoop up, scoopful, soap, take up, trump, dope, poop, scooper

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