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noun

a ladle or ladlelike utensil, especially a small, deep-sided shovel with a short, horizontal handle, for taking up flour, sugar, etc.

a utensil composed of a palm-sized hollow hemisphere attached to a horizontal handle, for dishing out ice cream or other soft foods.

a hemispherical portion of food as dished out by such a utensil: two scoops of chocolate ice cream.

the bucket of a dredge, steam shovel, etc.

Surgery. a spoonlike apparatus for removing substances or foreign objects from the body.

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a hollow or hollowed-out place.

the act of ladling, dipping, dredging, etc.

the quantity held in a ladle, dipper, shovel, bucket, etc.

Journalism. a news item, report, or story first revealed in one paper, magazine, newscast, etc.; beat.

10.

Informal. news, information, or details, especially 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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verb (used without object)

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to remove or gather something with or as if with a scoop: to scoop with a ridiculously small shovel.

Origin:
1300–50; (noun) Middle English scope < Middle Dutch schōpe; (v.) Middle English scopen, derivative of the noun

Related forms

scoop·er, noun

out·scoop, verb (used with object)

un·der·scoop, noun

un·der·scoop, verb (used with object)

un·scooped, adjective

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Example Sentences

Serve an orange segment with a scoop of chocolate caramel mousse, or by itself.

Vertically ribbed black cotton shirt with long sleeves and a scoop neck, jeans, and the usual black slides.

When a swarm is detected, the scientists will scoop up a few dozen insects and glue little reflectors on their backs.

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Serve an orange segment with a scoop of chocolate caramel mousse, or by itself.

Vertically ribbed black cotton shirt with long sleeves and a scoop neck, jeans, and the usual black slides.

When a swarm is detected, the scientists will scoop up a few dozen insects and glue little reflectors on their backs.

Get the scoop on how photographers capture those amazing wildlife moments.

Unlike its domestic companion, the dog, a cat does not simply scoop water into its mouth with its tongue.

Here's the scoop on four cases of criminal behavior involving the local ice cream man.

Watch for scoop on the best annual herbs to plant in your edible garden.

It has two levers, which appear to control the main arm and the scoop.

Sometimes he was able to scoop up a sleeping bat using a net made with thin mesh.

And you have to forgo that comforting extra scoop of ice-cream.

Most scoop them up in clumps and dump them into buckets.

As you're enjoying your turkey dinner this holiday weekend, you might want to scoop on an extra serving of cranberry sauce.

For a sweet version, follow the baked maple squash recipe and simply scoop it out of its shell at the end.

Watch to get the scoop on gorgeously vibrant flowers to cut and display in your home.

Texas and a few other states will be taking a gamble when ambulances come to scoop them up after accidents or acts of violence.

Next he worried someone might steal a scoop conjured up in his head.

They would reduce pollution and congestion, and scoop up money from out-of-city commuters.

After you scoop out the inside of your pumpkin, you should separate the seeds.

But both times, when the scoop was upside down, the icy soil clung fast and the samples were discarded.

Think of an infinitely small ice-cream scoop flecked with sprinkles.

Scoop out any remaining golden butter and add to bowl.

Everyone makes their spoon-and later their ice cream scoop and whisk-flop over backwards.

Groupon retorts that it is simply spending heavily to scoop up subscribers while the market it created is in its infancy.

Then it uses its long fingers to scoop up the insects.

Its scoop of a snout stirs up mud in search of small fish and aquatic insects.

All that's left is a giant scoop of vanilla bean ice cream.

Here is the short scoop on the angular momentum principle.

He happily gives rival reporters the details of his latest scoop.

I'd unwrap the blintz and scoop up the cheese filling with my fingers, then dunk my fingers in apple sauce and eat.

Use a big metal spoon to scoop out squash and stew into soup bowls, adding stew from pan.

But that may not matter if it manages to scoop lots of support among these populous states.

Cut out top of small pumpkin and scoop the inside clean.

Use a ladle or the stirring paddle to scoop hot water into the pouch to remove the residual extract.

We scoop the mostly-drained fromage blanc into perforated tumbler-size plastic molds and sprinkle them with salt.

Gently scoop egg from water with a slotted spoon and set on salad.

Scoop them out with a slotted spoon and plunge them into a bowl of ice and cold water.

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World English Dictionary

scoop (skuːp)

—n
1.	a utensil used as a shovel or ladle, esp a small shovel with deep sides and a short handle, used for taking up flour, corn, etc
2.	a utensil with a long handle and round bowl used for dispensing liquids
3.	a utensil with a round bowl and short handle, sometimes with a mechanical device to empty the bowl, for serving ice cream or mashed potato
4.	anything that resembles a scoop in action, such as the bucket on a dredge
5.	a spoonlike surgical instrument for scraping or extracting foreign matter, etc, from the body
6.	the quantity taken up by a scoop
7.	the act of scooping, dredging, etc
8.	a hollow cavity
9.	slang a large quick gain, as of money
10.	a news story reported in one newspaper before all the others; an exclusive
11.	any sensational piece of news

—vb
12.	(often foll by up) to take up and remove (an object or substance) with or as if with a scoop
13.	(often foll by out) to hollow out with or as if with a scoop: to scoop a hole in a hillside
14.	to win (a prize, award, or large amount of money)
15.	to beat (rival newspapers) in uncovering a news item
16.	sport to hit (the ball) on its underside so that it rises into the air

[C14: via Middle Dutch schōpe from Germanic; compare Old High German scephan to ladle, German schöpfen, Schaufelshovel, Dutch schoep vessel for baling]

'scooper

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'scoopful

—n

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Word Origin & History

scoop

early 14c., "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,

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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).

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Slang Dictionary

scoop definition

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.
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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SCOOP definition

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].

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