scoop

noun

1. 1

   Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.

   She kept a scoop in the dog food.

   an ice-cream scoop

2. 2

   The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.

   Use one scoop of coffee for each pot.

   I'll have one scoop of chocolate ice-cream.

3. 3

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

   with a quick scoop, she fished the frog out of the pond.

4. 4

   A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.

   He listened carefully, in hopes of getting the scoop on the debate.

   "We may get a scoop, if we are lucky. You'll be there in any case, so you'll just give us a pretty full report."

   The problem is that the public, disobediently giggling over their social media accounts, reckon they’ve already got the scoop without needing to see the film.

5. 5

   An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.

6. 6

   The digging attachment on a front-end loader.

7. 7

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

   Some had lain in the scoop of the rock.

8. 8

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

9. 9

   A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.

10. 10

    A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

11. 11

    The peak of a cap.

12. 12

    A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.

13. 13

    The raised end of a surfboard.

    This brings the scoop into play as additional wetted surface and slows the board due to its fore-and-aft curvature

    [T]he scoop or upward curvature in the front or nose section of a board is designed to keep the board from diving under the surface of the water when the surfer is catching a wave.

14. 14

    A kind of floodlight with a reflector.

15. 15

    datedA haul of money made through speculation.

16. 16

    A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.

    Jazz symbols include many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits, fall-offs, and scoops.

17. 17

    rareA group of pelicans.

    A scoop of pelicans roosts on the rocks late Sunday afternoon at Natural Bridges State Beach as a surfer rides a wave.

    A scoop of pelicans gather in Brockliss Slough just below Genoa.

    TThe Egyptian goose (circled) was spotted in a scoop of pelicans.

verb

1. 1

   To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.

   He used both hands to scoop water and splash it on his face.

   Their first clear opportunity duly came courtesy of a mistake from Russell Martin, who was hustled off the ball by Bale, but the midfielder scooped his finish well over the top as he bore down on the Norwich goal.

2. 2

   To make hollow; to dig out.

   I tried scooping a hole in the sand with my fingers.

3. 3

   To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).

   The paper across town scooped them on the City Hall scandal.

4. 4

   To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.

5. 5

   slangTo pick (someone) up

   You have a car. Can you come and scoop me?

6. 6

   slangTo win the entire pot in a hand in which the pot was split.

Forms

plural

scoops

past tense

scooped

past participle

scooped

present participle

scooping

third person singular

scoops