scoop Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the quantity a scoop will hold
    scoopful.
  2. noun a hollow concave shape made by removing something
    pocket.
  3. noun a news report that is reported first by one news organization
    exclusive.
    • he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials
  4. noun street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
    Georgia home boy; grievous bodily harm; liquid ecstasy; max; easy lay; goop; soap.
  5. noun the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe
    scoop shovel.
  6. noun a large ladle
    • he used a scoop to serve the ice cream
  7. verb take out or up with or as if with a scoop
    scoop out; scoop up; lift out; take up.
    • scoop the sugar out of the container
  8. verb get the better of
    outdo; outflank; best; trump.
    • the goal was to best the competition

WordNet


Scoop noun
Etymology
OE. scope, of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. skopa, akin to D. schop a shovel, G. schüppe, and also to E. shove. See Shovel.
Definitions
  1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
  2. A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.
  3. (Surg.) A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
  4. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
    Some had lain in the scoop of the rock. J. R. Drake.
  5. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
  6. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
Scoop transitive verb
Etymology
OE. scopen. See Scoop, n.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Scooped ; present participle & verbal noun Scooping
Definitions
  1. To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.
    He scooped the water from the crystal flood. Dryden.
  2. To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.
  3. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.
    Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to hold above a pint. Arbuthnot.

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