Hypertext Webster Gateway: "scoop"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Scoop \Scoop\, n. [OE. scope, of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. skopa,
akin to D. schop a shovel, G. sch["u]ppe, and also to E.
shove. See {Shovel}.]
1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for
dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
2. A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out
and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop;
the scoop of a dredging machine.
3. (Surg.) A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting
certain substances or foreign bodies.
4. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
Some had lain in the scoop of the rock. --J. R.
Drake.
5. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
6. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a
motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
{Scoop net}, a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net
for sweeping the bottom of a river.
{Scoop wheel}, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or
buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Scoop \Scoop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scooped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Scooping}.] [OE. scopen. See {Scoop}, n.]
1. To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.
He scooped the water from the crystal flood.
--Dryden.
2. To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.
3. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig
out; to form by digging or excavation.
Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to
hold above a pint. --Arbuthnot.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Scoop \Scoop\, n.
A beat. [Newspaper Slang]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Scoop \Scoop\, v. t.
To get a scoop, or a beat, on (a rival). [Newspaper Slang]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
scoop
n 1: the quantity a scoop will hold [syn: {scoopful}]
2: a hollow concave shape made by removing something [syn: {pocket}]
3: a news report that is reported first by one news
organization; "he got a scoop on the bribery of city
officials" [syn: {exclusive}]
4: the shovel or bucket of dredge or backhoe [syn: {scoop
shovel}]
5: a large ladle; "he used a scoop to serve the ice cream"
v 1: profit suddenly [syn: {make a scoop}]
2: take out or up with or as if with a scoop [syn: {scoop out},
{lift out}, {scoop up}, {take up}]
3: get the better of [syn: {outdo}, {outflank}, {trump}, {best}]
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