scoop
/skup/ noun C1- Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material. · She kept a scoop in the dog food.· an ice-cream scoop
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop. · Use one scoop of coffee for each pot.· I'll have one scoop of chocolate ice-cream.
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling. · with a quick scoop, she fished the frog out of the pond.
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else. · He listened carefully, in hopes of getting the scoop on the debate.
- 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.
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“That is not his biggest scoop,” said Morcerf; “did he not make a million in Spaniards this last year?”
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