<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a ladle or ladlelike utensil, especially a small, deep-sided shovel with a short, horizontal handle, for taking up flour, sugar, etc.</li><li>a utensil composed of a palm-sized hollow hemisphere attached to a horizontal handle, for dishing out ice cream or other soft foods.</li><li>a hemispherical portion of food as dished out by such a utensil: two scoops of chocolate ice cream.</li><li>the bucket of a dredge, steam shovel, etc.</li><li>Surgery: a spoonlike apparatus for removing substances or foreign objects from the body.</li><li>a hollow or hollowed-out place.</li><li>the act of ladling, dipping, dredging, etc.</li><li>the quantity held in a ladle, dipper, shovel, bucket, etc.</li><li>Journalism: a news item, report, or story first revealed in one paper, magazine, newscast, etc.; beat.</li><li>Informal: news, information, or details, especially as obtained from experience or an immediate source: What's the scoop on working this machine?</li><li>a gathering to oneself or lifting with the arms or hands.</li><li>Informal: a big haul, as of money.</li><li>Television, Movies: a single large floodlight shaped like a flour scoop.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to take up or out with or as if with a scoop.</li><li>to empty with a scoop.</li><li>to form a hollow or hollows in.</li><li>to form with or as if with a scoop.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) to remove or gather something with or as if with a scoop: to scoop with a ridiculously small shovel.</li></ul>