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Scoop   /skup/   Listen
noun
Scoop  n.  
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.
7.
A quantity sufficient to fill a scoop; used especially for ice cream, dispensed with an ice cream scoop; as, an ice cream cone with two scoops.
8.
An act of reporting (news, research results) before a rival; also called a beat. (Newspaper or laboratory cant)
9.
News or information; as, what's the scoop on John's divorce?. (informal)
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.


verb
Scoop  v. t.  (past & past part. scooped; pres. part. scooping)  
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."


Scoop  v. t.  To report a story first, before (a rival); to get a scoop, or a beat, on (a rival); used commonly in the passive; as, we were scooped. Also used in certain situations in scientific research, when one scientist or team of scientists reports their results before another who is working on the same problem.





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"Scoop" Quotes from Famous Books



... club to the Charlestonians. He waved his bat violently up and down, and stared fiercely at the Charleston pitcher. His ferocity disappeared, however, when he saw the ball coming at a frightful speed straight at him, and threatening to take a large scoop out of his stomach. He stretched up and back and away from it with a ridiculous wiggle, that was the more ridiculous when he saw the ball curve harmlessly over the plate and ...
— The Dozen from Lakerim • Rupert Hughes
... little lad, Where were you born? Far off in Lancashire, under a thorn, Where they sup butter-milk With a ram's horn; And a pumpkin scoop'd, With a yellow rim, Is the ...
— The Only True Mother Goose Melodies • Anonymous
... little more or a little less does not signify anything." But it does signify in this world of material things. Is one man as impressive as an army, one tree as impressive as a forest? "Scoop a little water in the hollow of your palm; take up a handful of shore sand; well, these are the elements. What is the beach but acres of sand? what is the ocean but cubic miles of water? A little more or a little less signifies nothing." It is the mass ...
— The Last Harvest • John Burroughs
... a bar's track, but 'tain't one. What you call the heel and toes, is made by them spires of grass which the wind bends, makin' 'em scoop out the sand, as you see thar. You ought to hev seen that yourself; but you see you 'States' men never stop to think. If a hundred was ter travel over them plains once a year for fifty years, not more than one out er the hull lot would make ...
— The Young Trail Hunters • Samuel Woodworth Cozzens
... is worth going a good many miles to see the inside of one of them. By just shutting one's eyes and "making believe" a little, how easy it would be to conjure up our dear old grandmothers in their great scoop bonnets, and grandfathers with their high coat collars coming nearly to their bald crowns! And the Deacon's Seat under the pulpit—how easy to make believe the deacons in claw-hammer coats and queer frilled ...
— Three Young Knights • Annie Hamilton Donnell


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