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1.nounAny cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material."She kept a scoop in the dog food."
2.nounThe amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop."I'll have one scoop of chocolate ice-cream."
3.nounThe act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
4.nounA story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
5.nounAn opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
6.nounThe digging attachment on a front-end loader.
7.nounA place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
8.nounA spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
9.nounA special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
10.nounA sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
11.nounThe peak of a cap.
12.nounA hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
13.verbTo lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop."He used both hands to scoop water and splash it on his face."
14.verbTo make hollow; to dig out."I tried scooping a hole in the sand with my fingers."
15.verbTo report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else)."The paper across town scooped them on the City Hall scandal."
16.verb(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.
17.verbTo pick (someone) up"You have a car. Can you come and scoop me?"