scoop

v. dig, pick up material with a shovel or similar tool; pick up material with a spoon; publish a news story before every other newspaper (or television station, etc.); dig out, hollow out, create a cavity

n. spoon, ladle; tool for scooping or digging; hollow, cavity; act of scooping or digging; quantity that fills one scoop; (Slang) exclusive news story reported by one newspaper (or television station, etc.); large profit (Slang)

Scoop may refer to:Scoop (term), a news story, particularly connotating a new or developing story with aspects of importance and excitement, normally an exclusive for the journalist involved Scoop (novel), a 1938 novel by Evelyn WaughScoop (news website), a prominent independent news website based in New ZealandScoop (software), a Perl content management systemSCOOP (software), the Simple Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming extension for concurrent programming in the Eiffel programming languageScoop (utensil), a specialized spoon for servingA shovel-like tool, particularly one deep and curved, used in digging, the act of using such a tool, or a rough measure of volume equal to the carrying capacity of a scoopScoop stretcher, (or clamshell, Robertson Orthopedic Stretcher), a device used specifically for casualty liftingHenry M. Jackson, also known as "Scoop" Jackson, a mid-20th-Century senatorScoop (album), a 1983 collection of out-takes and demo versions by Pete TownshendScoop (theater), a type of wide area lighting fixtureScoop (1987 film), a movie adapted from the Evelyn Waugh novelScoop (2006 film), a Woody Allen movie starring Hugh Jackman and Scarlett JohanssonScoop (cricket): The Marillier shot is a modern shot in cricket which involves reversing the grip on the bat and using it as a ramp to flick a ball backwards over the batsman's shoulder for a boundary.
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Noun
1. the quantity a scoop will hold
(synonym) scoopful
(hypernym) containerful
(derivation) scoop out, lift out, scoop up, take up
2. a hollow concave shape made by removing something
(synonym) pocket
(hypernym) concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature
(derivation) scoop out, lift out, scoop up, take up
3. a news report that is reported first by one news organization; "he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials"
(synonym) exclusive
(hypernym) report, news report, story, account, write up
4. street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
(synonym) soap, max, liquid ecstasy, grievous bodily harm, goop, Georgia home boy, easy lay
(hypernym) gamma hydroxybutyrate, GHB
5. the shovel or bucket of dredge or backhoe
(synonym) scoop shovel
(hypernym) shovel
(part-holonym) backhoe
(derivation) scoop out, lift out, scoop up, take up
6. a large ladle; "he used a scoop to serve the ice cream"
(hypernym) ladle
(derivation) scoop out, lift out, scoop up, take up
Verb
1. take out or up with or as if with a scoop; "scoop the sugar out of the container"
(synonym) scoop out, lift out, scoop up, take up
(hypernym) remove, take, take away, withdraw
(hyponym) dip
(derivation) pocket
2. get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition"
(synonym) outdo, outflank, trump, best
(hypernym) beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
(hyponym) outmaneuver, outmanoeuvre, outsmart

n. scoop, exclusive news story reported by one newspaper (or television station, etc.)

n. scoop, exclusive news story reported by one newspaper (or television station, etc.)