Noun: scoop skoop
- A large ladle
"he used a scoop to serve the ice cream"
- A news report that is reported first by one news organization
"he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials";
- exclusive
- The quantity a scoop will hold
"He added a scoop of flour to the mixture";
- scoopful
- A hollow concave shape made by removing something
"The ice cream scoop left a perfect hemisphere in the container";
- pocket
- The shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe
"The operator skilfully manoeuvred the scoop shovel to clear debris from the construction site";
- scoop shovel
- [slang] Street name for gamma hydroxybutyrate
"The police warned about the dangers of scoop";
- soap [slang], max [slang], liquid ecstasy [slang], goop [N. Amer, slang], Georgia home boy [slang], easy lay [slang], thick [slang], gloop [Brit, Cdn, slang]
- Take out or up with or as if with a scoop
"scoop the sugar out of the container"; "scoop up the sugar out of the container";
- scoop out, lift out, scoop up, take up
- Report or publish before others
"we were scooped by a couple of hours"
Derived forms: scooped, scoops, scooping
Type of: account, concave shape, concavity, containerful, gamma hydroxybutyrate, GHB, incurvation, incurvature, ladle, news report, remove, report, shovel, story, take, take away, withdraw, write up
Encyclopedia: Scoop