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Definition of Scoop

1. Verb. Take out or up with or as if with a scoop. "Scoop the sugar out of the container"

2. Noun. The quantity a scoop will hold.

3. Verb. Get the better of. "The fighter managed to scoop his opponent"; "The goal was to best the competition"

4. Noun. A hollow concave shape made by removing something.

5. Noun. A news report that is reported first by one news organization. "He got a scoop on the bribery of city officials"

6. Noun. Street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate.

7. Noun. The shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe.

8. Noun. A large ladle. "He used a scoop to serve the ice cream"

Definition of Scoop

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

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

3. n. A beat.

4. v. t. To get a scoop, or a beat, on (a rival).

Definition of Scoop

1. Noun. Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually including a handle used to lift and move loose or soft solid material. ¹

2. Noun. The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop. ¹

3. Noun. A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else. ¹

4. Noun. (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine. ¹

5. Noun. The digging attachment on a front-end loader. ¹

6. Noun. A covered opening in an automobile's hood which allows cold air to enter the area beneath the hood. ¹

7. Noun. A special "Spinal Board" called a "Scoop" or "Spinal scoop" used by EMS staff that divides laterally to literally scoop up patients. ¹

8. Verb. (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop. ¹

9. Verb. (transitive) To learn something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else). ¹

10. Verb. (music often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music. ¹

11. Verb. To consume an alcoholic beverage. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scoop

1. to take up with a scoop (a spoonlike utensil) [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Scoop

1. 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. A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies. 4. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow. "Some had lain in the scoop of the rock." (J. R. Drake) 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. 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. Origin: OE. Scope, of Scand. Origin; cf. Sw. Skopa, akin to D. Schop a shovel, G. Schuppe, and also to E. Shove. See Shovel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scoop

sconed scones sconing scontion scontions scoober scoobers scooch scooched scooches

scooching scoog scooged scooging scoogs scoop (current term) scoop out scoop shot scoop shovel scoop up

scoop wheel scoop wheels scoopable scooped scooped up scooper scoopers scoopful scoopfuls scooping

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