Scoop /(?)/

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. A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies. (Surg.)
4. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.

   Some had lain in the scoop of the rock.

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.
7. a quantity sufficient to fill a scoop; -- used especially for ice cream, dispensed with an ice cream scoop; as, an ice cream cone with two scoops.
8. an act of reporting (news, research results) before a rival; also called a beat. [Newspaper or laboratory cant]
9. news or information; as, what's the scoop on John's divorce?. [informal]

imp. & p. p. Scooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scooping

1. To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.

   He scooped the water from the crystal flood.

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.

1. to report a story first, before (a rival); to get a scoop, or a beat, on (a rival); -- used commonly in the passive; as, we were scooped. Also used in certain situations in scientific research, when one scientist or team of scientists reports their results before another who is working on the same problem.