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1. A large ladle
   "he used a scoop to serve the ice cream"
    
2. The quantity a scoop will hold
   - scoopful
    
3. A hollow concave shape made by removing something
   - pocket
    
4. A news report that is reported first by one news organization
   "he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials";
   - exclusive
    
5. [slang] Street name for gamma hydroxybutyrate
   - soap [slang], max [slang], liquid ecstasy [slang], grievous bodily harm [slang], goop [N. Amer, slang], Georgia home boy [slang], easy lay [slang], thick [slang], gloop [Brit, Cdn, slang]
    
6. The shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe
   - scoop shovel

1. Take out or up with or as if with a scoop
   "scoop the sugar out of the container"; "scoop up the sugar out of the container";
   - scoop out, lift out, scoop up, take up
    
2. Report or publish before others
   "we were scooped by a couple of hours"

Derived forms: scoops, scooped, scooping

Type of: account, concave shape, concavity, containerful, gamma hydroxybutyrate, GHB, incurvation, incurvature, ladle, news report, remove, report, shovel, story, take, take away, withdraw, write up

Part of: backhoe, dredge

Encyclopedia: Scoop