scoop
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Synonyms: stoop, scoot, swoop, snoop, coop, sloop, scop, soop, shoop, scorp, scroop
Antonyms: stoop, scoot, swoop, snoop, coop, sloop, scop, soop, shoop, scorp, scroop
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Noun
- Any [[cup-shaped]] or [[bowl-shaped]] [[tool]], usually with a [[handle]], used to [[lift]] and [[move]] [[loose]] or [[soft]] [[solid]] [[material]].
- The [[amount]] or [[volume]] of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- A [[story]] or [[fact]]; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- {{lb|en|automotive}} An opening in a [[hood]]/[[bonnet]] or other [[body]] panel to admit air, usually for cooling the [[engine]].
- The digging attachment on a [[front-end loader]].
- A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- A spoon-shaped [[surgical]] instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- A special spinal board used by [[EMS|emergency medical service]] staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- {{lb|en|Scotland}} The [[peak]] of a [[cap]].
- {{lb|en|pinball}} A hole on the [[playfield]] that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
Verb
- {{lb|en|transitive}} To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- {{lb|en|transitive}} To make hollow; to dig out.
- {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[report]] on something, especially something worthy of a [[news]] article, before (someone else).
- {{lb|en|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]].
- {{lb|en|MTE|slang}} To [[pick up|pick (someone) up]]
- {{lb|en|poker slang}} To [[win]] the entire pot in a hand in which the pot was split.
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