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Entry 13 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Scoop

/sko͞op/ · IPA /skuːp/
01 n. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
  1. 1.
    A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
  2. 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. 3.
    A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.(Surg.)
  4. 4.
    A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
    “Some had lain in the scoop of the rock.” — J. R. Drake.
  5. 5.
    A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
  6. 6.
    The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
  7. 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. 8.
    an act of reporting (news, research results) before a rival; also called a beat.[Newspaper or laboratory cant] Also: beat
  9. 9.
    news or information; as, what's the scoop on John's divorce?.[informal]
Phrases & compounds
Scoop net — a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river.
Scoop wheel — a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.
02 v. t. To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.
imp. & p. p. Scooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scooping
  1. 1.
    To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.
    “He scooped the water from the crystal flood.” — Dryden.
  2. 2.
    To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.
  3. 3.
    To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.
    “Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to hold above a pint.” — Arbuthnot.
03 v. t. 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. …
  1. 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.