[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a ladle or ladlelike utensil, especially a small, deep-sided shovel with a short, horizontal handle, for taking up flour, sugar, etc.", "a utensil composed of a palm-sized hollow hemisphere attached to a horizontal handle, for dishing out ice cream or other soft foods.", "a hemispherical portion of food as dished out by such a utensil:two scoops of chocolate ice cream.", "the bucket of a dredge, steam shovel, etc.", "Surgery.a spoonlike apparatus for removing substances or foreign objects from the body.", "a hollow or hollowed-out place.", "the act of ladling, dipping, dredging, etc.", "the quantity held in a ladle, dipper, shovel, bucket, etc.", "Journalism.a news item, report, or story first revealed in one paper, magazine, newscast, etc.; beat.", "Informal.news, information, or details, especially as obtained from experience or an immediate source:What's the scoop on working this machine?", "a gathering to oneself or lifting with the arms or hands.", "Informal.a big haul, as of money.", "Television, Movies.a single large floodlight shaped like a flour scoop."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to take up or out with or as if with a scoop.", "to empty with a scoop.", "to form a hollow or hollows in.", "to form with or as if with a scoop.", "to get the better of (other publications, newscasters, etc.) by obtaining and publishing or broadcasting a news item, report, or story first:They scooped all the other dailies with the story of the election fraud.", "to gather up or to oneself or to put hastily by a sweeping motion of one's arms or hands:He scooped the money into his pocket."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to remove or gather something with or as if with a scoop:to scoop with a ridiculously small shovel."]}]