Scoop

[Scoop]

Most people think of ice cream when they think of the noun scoop, but journalists who get a story before others also get a scoop, and dog owners need to scoop up after their dogs or else they will get a ticket for littering.

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A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.

Noun
a large ladle; "he used a scoop to serve the ice cream"

Noun
the shovel or bucket of dredge or backhoe

Noun
street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate

Noun
a news report that is reported first by one news organization; "he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials"

Noun
the quantity a scoop will hold

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Noun
a hollow concave shape made by removing something

Verb
get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition"

Verb
take out or up with or as if with a scoop; "scoop the sugar out of the container"


n.
A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.

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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.

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A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.

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A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.

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A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

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The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.

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To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.

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To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.

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To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.


Scoop

Scoop , n. [OE. scope, of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. skopa, akin to D. schop a shovel, G. sch'81ppe, and also to E. shove. See Shovel.] 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.
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 net, a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river. -- Scoop wheel, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.

Scoop

Scoop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scooped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Scooping.] [OE. scopen. See Scoop, n.] 1. To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.
He scooped the water from the crystal flood.
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.

A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.

To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.

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Usage Examples

We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.

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