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noun. A shovellike utensil, usually having a deep curved dish and a short handle.

noun. 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.

noun. A ladle; a dipper.

noun. An implement for bailing water from a boat.

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

noun. A bucket or shovel of a dredge, backhoe, or other digging machine.

noun. The amount that any of these utensils, implements, or containers can hold.

noun. A scooping movement or action.

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

noun. Current information or details.

noun. A rounded, usually low-cut neckline, as on a blouse or dress.

noun. A hollow area; a cavity.

noun. An opening, as on the body of a motor vehicle, by which a fluid is directed inward.

transitive verb. To take up and often reposition with a scoop.

transitive verb. To hollow out by digging.

transitive verb. To pick up, gather, or collect swiftly and smoothly.

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

noun. A utensil like a shovel, but having a short handle and a deep hollow receptacle capable of holding various small articles.

noun. Hence A coal-scuttle.

noun. A basin-like cavity, natural or artificial; a hollow.

noun. An instrument used in hollowing out anything, or in removing something out of a hollow or so as to leave a hollow: as, a cheese-scoop.

noun. The vizor or peak of a cap.

noun. A big haul, as if in a scoop-net; in particular, a big haul of money made in speculation or in some similar way.

noun. The act of scooping; a movement analogous to the act of scooping.

noun. The securing and publishing by a newspaper of a piece of news in advance of its rivals; a “beat,” especially a “beat” of unusual success or importance.

To take with or as with a scoop or a scoop-net: generally with out, up, or in: as, to scoop up water.

Figuratively, to gather up as if with a scoop; hence, to gain by force or fraud.

To empty as with a scoop or by lading; hence, to hollow out; excavate: commonly with out.

To form by hollowing out as with a scoop.

To take with a dredge, as oysters; dredge.

In newspaper slang, to get the better of (a rival or rivals) by securing and publishing a piece of news in advance of it or them; get a “beat” on. See scoop, n., 8.

To use a scoop; dredge, as for oysters.

To feed; take food, as the right or whalebone whale. See scooping, n.

transitive verb. to report a story first, before (a rival); to get a scoop, or a beat, on (a rival); -- used commonly in the passive. Also used in certain situations in scientific research, when one scientist or team of scientists reports their results before another who is working on the same problem.

transitive verb. To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.

transitive verb. To empty by lading.

transitive verb. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.

noun. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.

noun. A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything.

noun. A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.

noun. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.

noun. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

noun. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.

noun. a quantity sufficient to fill a scoop; -- used especially for ice cream, dispensed with an ice cream scoop.

noun. an act of reporting (news, research results) before a rival; also called a beat.

noun. news or information.

noun. a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river.

noun. a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.

"*Scoops up teh splorted branes, scoop scoop scoop*"

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