Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SCOOP

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Definitions of SCOOP

1. Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
2. The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
3. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
4. A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
5. The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
6. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
7. A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
8. A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
9. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
10. (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
11. (Scotland) The peak of a cap.
12. (pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
13. (surfing) The raised end of a surfboard.
14. (film, television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
15. (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
16. (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.
17. (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
18. (music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
19. (MTE, slang) To pick (someone) up
20. (slang, dated) A haul of money made through speculation.
21. (music) A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.

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Examples of Using SCOOP in a Sentence

• SCOOP (software), the 'Simple Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming' extension for concurrent programming in the Eiffel programming language.
• Popular conservative Democratic Senator "Scoop" Jackson carried the county in four consecutive county sweeps (the last in 1982); since then, however, it has been powerfully Republican in those contests too.
• Reagan's optimistic tone managed to win over a broad set of voters to an almost unprecedented degree (for a Republican since moderate war hero Eisenhower's victories in 1952 and 1956) across the board, but did not make particular demographic inroads with Democratic voters, with the possible exception of national security voters (a focused yet relatively small group, difficult to find decisive empirical support for and identified in 1980 with Democrat Henry "Scoop" Jackson, a Reagan ally for a brief period after 1980 until his death in 1983).
• The most notable finds included a small Buddha statuette from North India and a christening scoop from Egypt, both dating from the 6th century.
• The bailer or scoop has a tincture of Or which means it is commonly colored yellow, but if it is made out of metal, then gold is used.
• In Hawaii, this is informally classified as either "one-finger", "two-finger", or "three-finger", alluding to how many fingers are required to scoop it up (the thicker the poi, the fewer fingers required to scoop a sufficient mouthful).
• A spork is a form of cutlery and combination utensil taking the form of a spoon-like scoop with two to four fork-like tines.
• The bat uses echolocation to detect water ripples made by the fish upon which it preys, then uses the pouch between its legs to scoop the fish up and its sharp claws to catch and cling to it.
• Bussard proposed to "scoop" up ionized hydrogen and funnel it into a fusion reactor, using the exhaust from the reactor as a rocket engine.
• The adze is used to cut footholds, as well as scoop out compacted snow to bury the axe as a belay anchor.
• After the general election, disgruntled right-winger and ex-United Future MP Marc Alexander also voiced repeated criticisms of his former colleagues, in his "Marc My Words" political opinion column for Scoop, a New Zealand news website.
• Besides penning stories featuring his creations Ibis the Invincible, the Spy Smasher, the Golden Arrow, Lance O'Casey, Scoop Smith, and Dan Dare for the new book, Parker also wrote a story about a team of six superheroes.
• He gained a scoop when he interviewed the then Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, who was holidaying in Ireland.
• A group of SCORE off-road racers (Dick Landfield, Jimmy Smith, Jim Venable, and Frank "Scoop" Vessels) and tested by truck owner Jim Smith around Daytona International Speedway.
• took two torpedo hits that blasted her bow downward like an immense scoop and left her forecastle deck awash, but she continued to fight on.
• Cuttings from the rasp were ejected into the heel of the scoop and transferred to the front for delivery to the instruments.
• This bat quickly became a big seller and various scooped bats such as the GN500, Dynadrive and Viper have been released by Gray-Nicolls ever since, including a re-release of the Scoop itself for the 2012 English season.
• With an almost effortless swinging and lifting motion, the waterproof vessel can be used to scoop up and carry water from a body of water (typically, a river or pond) onto land or to another body of water.
• The losing team in any high school baseball game played at the ballpark is allowed to scoop up handfuls of Koshien infield dirt, stuffing holy soil into their cleat bags as hordes of Japanese media snap photos at arm's length.
• In Oct 1974, she hit a buoy foundation in NY harbor, opening a hole in the scoop injection of the forward engine room.
• The judge in a 2023 court case against Mirror Group Newspapers found truthful evidence that Morgan knew about private phone hacking from a reporter, shared a method of phone hacking with a media professional while being questioned about a reporting scoop, and that Morgan played another's private phone message in the newsroom he had received from another tabloid editor.
• Throughout his career, Fatman Scoop collaborated with numerous artists, including on Ying Yang Twins' 2004 remix of "Salt Shaker", Janet Jackson's 2006 remix of "So Excited", The Pussycat Dolls' 2008 remix of "When I Grow Up", David Guetta's 2009 remix of "One Love", and Skrillex's 2014 single "Recess".
• As an editor at the newspaper, Rosenthal oversaw the coverage of numerous major news stories including the escalation of the United States military's involvement in the Vietnam War (1961–1975), the New York Times scoop of the Pentagon Papers (1971), and events that were part of the Watergate scandal (1972–1974).
• Hot rod and drag race enthusiasts have modified automotive engines to increase power via supercharger forced induction since the 1920s; in some cases, a blower scoop is added to the top of the supercharger as an aid to air intake.
• A nonfunctional dual hood scoop and rear spoiler appearance package were available, as were high-back bucket seats and dual exhaust.

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