scoop

scoop is a 5-letter English word with 17 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
2. noun. 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. noun. A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
4. noun. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
5. noun. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
6. noun. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
7. noun. To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.
8. noun. To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.
9. noun. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.
10. noun. a large ladle

    "he used a scoop to serve the ice cream"

11. noun. the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe
12. noun. street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate

    Synonyms: goop, max, soap

13. noun. a news report that is reported first by one news organization

    "he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials"

    Synonyms: exclusive

14. noun. the quantity a scoop will hold

    Synonyms: scoopful

15. noun. a hollow concave shape made by removing something

    Synonyms: pocket

16. verb. get the better of

    "the goal was to best the competition"

    Synonyms: best, outdo, outflank, trump

17. verb. take out or up with or as if with a scoop

    "scoop the sugar out of the container"

Synonyms

goop, max, soap, exclusive, scoopful, pocket, best, outdo, outflank, trump

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in scoop:

coops

Common word forms

scoops, scooped, scooper, scoopful, scooping, scoopable

Words from these letters

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