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Noun: scoop  skoop
  1. A large ladle
    "he used a scoop to serve the ice cream"
     
  2. A news report that is reported first by one news organization
    "he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials";
    - exclusive
     
  3. The quantity a scoop will hold
    "He added a scoop of flour to the mixture";
    - scoopful
     
  4. A hollow concave shape made by removing something
    "The ice cream scoop left a perfect hemisphere in the container";
    - pocket
     
  5. 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
     
  6. [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]
Verb: scoop  skoop
  1. 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
     
  2. 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

Part of: backhoe, dredge

Encyclopedia: Scoop