scoop🔊

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

The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.

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

A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else. +

(automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.

The digging attachment on a front-end loader.

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

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

A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.

A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

(Scotland) The peak of a cap.

(pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.

(surfing) The raised end of a surfboard.

(television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector.

(dated) A haul of money made through speculation.

(music) A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.

To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.

To make hollow; to dig out.

To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).

(often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.

(slang) To pick (someone) up