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scoop

  [skoop]
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–noun
1. a ladle or ladlelike utensil, esp. a small, deep-sided shovel with a short, horizontal handle, for taking up flour, sugar, etc.
2. a utensil composed of a palm-sized hollow hemisphere attached to a horizontal handle, for dishing out ice cream or other soft foods.
3. a hemispherical portion of food as dished out by such a utensil: two scoops of chocolate ice cream.
4. the bucket of a dredge, steam shovel, etc.
5. Surgery. a spoonlike apparatus for removing substances or foreign objects from the body.
6. a hollow or hollowed-out place.
7. the act of ladling, dipping, dredging, etc.
8. the quantity held in a ladle, dipper, shovel, bucket, etc.
9. a news item, report, or story first revealed in one paper, magazine, newscast, etc.; beat.
10. Informal. news, information, or details, esp. as obtained from experience or an immediate source: What's the scoop on working this machine?
11. a gathering to oneself or lifting with the arms or hands.
12. Informal. a big haul, as of money.
13. Television, Movies. a single large floodlight shaped like a flour scoop.
–verb (used with object)
14. to take up or out with or as if with a scoop.
15. to empty with a scoop.
16. to form a hollow or hollows in.
17. to form with or as if with a scoop.
18. to get the better of (other publications, newscasters, etc.) by obtaining and publishing or broadcasting a news item, report, or story first: They scooped all the other dailies with the story of the election fraud.
19. to gather up or to oneself or to put hastily by a sweeping motion of one's arms or hands: He scooped the money into his pocket.
–verb (used without object)
20. to remove or gather something with or as if with a scoop: to scoop with a ridiculously small shovel.
Origin:
1300–50; (n.) ME scope < MD schōpe; (v.) ME scopen, deriv. of the n.

Related forms:
scooper, noun
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scoop   (skōōp)   


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n.  

    1. A shovellike utensil, usually having a deep curved dish and a short handle: a flour scoop.

    2. The amount that such a utensil can hold.

    3. A thick-handled cuplike utensil for dispensing balls of ice cream or other semisoft food, often having a sweeping band in the cup that is levered by the thumb to free the contents.

    4. A portion of food gathered with this utensil.

    1. A thick-handled cuplike utensil for dispensing balls of ice cream or other semisoft food, often having a sweeping band in the cup that is levered by the thumb to free the contents.

    2. A portion of food gathered with this utensil.

  3. A ladle; a dipper.

  4. An implement for bailing water from a boat.

  5. A narrow, spoon-shaped instrument for surgical extraction in cavities or cysts.

  6. The bucket or shovel, as of a dredge or backhoe.

  7. A hollow area; a cavity.

  8. An opening, as on the body of a motor vehicle, by which a fluid is directed inward: "The [sports car] has . . . enough scoops and spoilers to get you a citation just standing still" (Mark Weinstein).

  9. A scooping movement or action.

  10. Informal An exclusive news story acquired by luck or initiative before a competitor.

  11. Informal Current information or details: What's the scoop on the new neighbors?

tr.v.   scooped, scoop·ing, scoops

  1. To take up or dip into with or as if with a scoop.

  2. To hollow out by digging.

  3. To gather or collect swiftly and unceremoniously; grab: scoop up a handful of jelly beans.

  4. Informal To top or outmaneuver (a competitor) in acquiring and publishing an important news story.


[Middle English scope, from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German schōpe, bucket for bailing water.]
scoop'er n., scoop'ful' n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
scoop

  1. n.
    a news story gathered by a reporter before any other reporter hears of it. : I got a great scoop! I was right there when it happened.
  2. tv.
    to beat someone—such as another reporter—in the race to get a news story first. : They scooped the other paper on both stories.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

scoop 
c.1330, "utensil for bailing out" (n.), also (v.) "to bail out;" from M.Du. schope "bucket for bailing water," from W.Gmc. *skopo (cf. M.L.G. schope "ladle"), from P.Gmc. *skop-, from PIE *(s)kep- "to cut, to scrape, to hack." Also from Low Ger. scheppen (v.) "to draw water," from P.Gmc. *skuppon, from PIE root *skub- (cf. O.E. sceofl "shovel," O.S. skufla; see shove). The journalistic sense of "news published before a rival" is first recorded 1874, Amer.Eng., from earlier commercial slang sense of "appropriate so as to exclude competitors" (c.1850).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: scoop
Pronunciation: 'sküp
Function: noun
: a spoon-shaped surgical instrument used in extracting various materials (as debris, pus, andforeign bodies)
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Computing Dictionary

SCOOP
Structured Concurrent Object-Oriented Prolog.
["SCOOP, Structured Concurrent Object-Oriented Prolog", J. Vaucher et al, in ECOOP '88, S. Gjessing et al eds, LNCS 322, Springer 1988, pp.191-211].

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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