scoop

IPA: skˈup

noun

  • Any cup- 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.
  • (film, television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
  • (slang, dated) A haul of money made through speculation.
  • (music) A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.

verb

  • (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
  • (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.
  • (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
  • (music, 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.
  • (MTE, slang) To pick (someone) up
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