Scoop

Quick meaning: Scoop is a noun meaning Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
2. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
3. A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
4. (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
5. The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
6. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
7. A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.

Example Sentences

an ice-cream scoop

She kept a scoop in the dog food.

Use one scoop of coffee for each pot.

I'll have one scoop of chocolate ice-cream.

Word Forms

• scoops
• scooping
• scooped

Synonyms for scoop

Depending on context, synonyms include scooper, scoopful, dope, poop, exclusive, trump.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pocket, outflank, take up, outdo, best, exclusive.

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