scoop Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun the quantity a scoop will hold
scoopful.
noun a hollow concave shape made by removing something
pocket.
noun a news report that is reported first by one news organization
exclusive.
- he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials
noun street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
Georgia home boy; grievous bodily harm; liquid ecstasy; max; easy lay; goop; soap.
noun the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe
scoop shovel.
noun a large ladle
- he used a scoop to serve the ice cream
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
verb get the better of
outdo; outflank; best; trump.
- the goal was to best the competition

OE. scope, of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. skopa, akin to D. schop a shovel, G. schüppe, and also to E. shove. See Shovel.

A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
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.
(Surg.) A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
Some had lain in the scoop of the rock. J. R. Drake.
A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.

OE. scopen. See Scoop, n.

imperfect & past participle Scooped ; present participle & verbal noun Scooping

To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.
He scooped the water from the crystal flood. Dryden.
To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.
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.