scoop /skoop/

1. A container for bailing water
2. A concave shovel or lipped container for skimming or shovelling up loose material
3. A kitchen utensil, a deeply concave spoon, often fitted with a mechanical device for unloading it, used for dispensing a serving of pulpy food, eg ice cream or mashed potato
4. An instrument for gouging out apple-cores, samples of cheese, etc
5. Anything of similar shape
6. An act of scooping
7. A quantity scooped
8. A sweeping stroke
9. A scooped-out place
10. Anything got by or as by scooping, a haul
11. The forestalling of other newspapers in obtaining a piece of news
12. An item of news so secured (also adjective)

1. To bail out
2. To lift, obtain, remove, hollow, or make with, or as if with, a scoop
3. To secure in advance of or to the exclusion of others

To slide up to a pitch

scooped adjective

scoopˈer noun

1. Someone or something that scoops
2. An engraver's tool
3. Another name for the avocet

scoopˈful noun (pl scoopˈfuls)

scoopˈing noun and adjective

scoopedˈ-out adjective

scoop neck noun

A low rounded neckline

scoop net noun

1. A long-handled dipping net
2. A net for scooping along the bottom

scoop the pool see under pool²

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