scoop

Definitions

1. 1noun

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

2. 2noun

   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. 3noun

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

4. 4noun

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

5. 5noun

   A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

6. 6noun

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

7. 7noun

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

8. 8noun

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

9. 9noun

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

10. 10noun

    a large ladle

    "he used a scoop to serve the ice cream"

11. 11noun

    the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe

12. 12noun

    street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate

    Synonyms

    goopmaxsoap
13. 13noun

    a news report that is reported first by one news organization

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

    Synonyms

    exclusive
14. 14noun

    the quantity a scoop will hold

    Synonyms

    scoopful
15. 15noun

    a hollow concave shape made by removing something

    Synonyms

    pocket
16. 16verb

    get the better of

    "the goal was to best the competition"

    Synonyms

    bestoutdooutflanktrump
17. 17verb

    take out or up with or as if with a scoop

    "scoop the sugar out of the container"