1. Noun
A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
2. Noun
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. Noun
A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
4. Noun
A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
5. Noun
A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
6. Noun
The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
7. Noun
To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.
8. Noun
To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.
9. Noun
To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.
10. Noun
a news report that is reported first by one news organization; "he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials"
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