Scoop

/skuːp/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

She kept a scoop in the dog food.

an ice-cream scoop

Use one scoop of coffee for each pot.

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

with a quick scoop, she fished the frog out of the pond.

He listened carefully, in hopes of getting the scoop on the debate.

"We may get a scoop, if we are lucky. You'll be there in any case, so you'll just give us a pretty full report."

The problem is that the public, disobediently giggling over their social media accounts, reckon they’ve already got the scoop without needing to see the film.

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Antonyms for scoop

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Word Forms

• scoops
• scooping
• scooped

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