Definitions for scoop

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IPA: /skup/

Scoop is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in scoop (coops).

Definitions for scoop

noun

1. a ladle or ladlelike utensil, especially a small, deep-sided shovel with a short, horizontal handle, for taking up flour, sugar, etc.
2. a utensil composed of a palm-sized hollow hemisphere attached to a horizontal handle, for dishing out ice cream or other soft foods.
3. a hemispherical portion of food as dished out by such a utensil:
4. the bucket of a dredge, steam shovel, etc.
5. Surgery. a spoonlike apparatus for removing substances or foreign objects from the body.
6. a hollow or hollowed-out place.
7. the act of ladling, dipping, dredging, etc.
8. the quantity held in a ladle, dipper, shovel, bucket, etc.
9. Journalism. a news item, report, or story first revealed in one paper, magazine, newscast, etc.; beat.
10. Informal. news, information, or details, especially as obtained from experience or an immediate source:
11. a gathering to oneself or lifting with the arms or hands.
12. Informal. a big haul, as of money.
13. Television, Movies. a single large floodlight shaped like a flour scoop.

verb (used with object)

1. to take up or out with or as if with a scoop.
2. to empty with a scoop.
3. to form a hollow or hollows in.
4. to form with or as if with a scoop.
5. to get the better of (other publications, newscasters, etc.) by obtaining and publishing or broadcasting a news item, report, or story first:
6. to gather up or to oneself or to put hastily by a sweeping motion of one's arms or hands:

verb (used without object)

1. to remove or gather something with or as if with a scoop:

Origin of scoop

1300-50; (noun) Middle English scope Middle Dutch schōpe; (v.) Middle English scopen, derivative of the noun

Examples for scoop

The editors or local reporters watch for what they call a "scoop."

With a 1¾-inch ice cream scoop (or two spoons), scoop round balls of dough onto the prepared sheet pans.

No, what I want to get at is your idea of what should come to you, as a bonus, when I scoop the board.

"I take it that Grant means to scoop in the Johnnies in detail," said Warner.

If we just scoop out a little sand, we can launch the boat with everything in her.

In stand mixer, mix cookie mix following the directions on the box, scoop 11 cookies onto baking sheet, place in oven.

She refuses to speak on the record about an issue because she has already guaranteed that scoop to another magazine.

When the bucket came up with its first scoop of dirt, Metzler, the cemetery superintendent, walked over and looked at it.

scoop out some of the inside, and fill them with the preserve.

McClatchy was the winner and got the scoop, and I will live with that.