scoop

• 411
• bail
• bleed
• book
• bucket
• decant
• deplete
• dessertspoon
• dip
• dipper
• dirt
• dish
• dope
• drain
• draw
• eliminate
• empty
• exhaust
• gossip
• hint
• information
• inside
• intelligence
• lade
• ladle
• lowdown
• news
• pointer
• poop
• pump
• rumor
• siphon
• skimmer
• skinny
• slop
• soupspoon
• spoon
• story
• suction
• syphon
• tablespoon
• teaspoon
• tidings
• tip
• word

• ancient history
• fill
• open secret
• pour

• noun
  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. An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
  6. The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
  7. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
  8. A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
  9. A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
  10. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
  11. The peak of a cap.
  12. A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
• verb
  1. To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
  2. To make hollow; to dig out.
  3. To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
  4. (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.
  5. To pick (someone) up.

• She used a large scoop to serve the ice cream.
• He got the first scoop on the celebrity news.
• The dog took a playful scoop of dirt with its paw.
• I need a scoop of protein powder for my shake.
• The reporter claimed to have a major scoop about the election.

ABCs

earful

facts

ideas

lade

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