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Definition of 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. | | 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. | | 9. | news or information; as, what's the scoop on John's divorce?. | | v. t. | 1. | To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out. | | 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. | | 1. | 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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