scoop

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Word: Scoop

Scoop can be used both as a noun and a verb, and it has several meanings.

Academic

Noun

1. a large ladle
   • he used a scoop to serve the ice cream
2. the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe
3. street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
4. a news report that is reported first by one news organization
   • he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials
5. a hollow concave shape made by removing something
6. the quantity a scoop will hold

Verb

1. get the better of
   • the goal was to best the competition
2. take out or up with or as if with a scoop
   • scoop the sugar out of the container

Synonyms

• scoop shovel
• soap
• max
• liquid ecstasy
• grievous bodily harm
• goop
• Georgia home boy
• easy lay
• exclusive
• pocket
• scoopful
• outdo
• outflank
• trump
• best
• scoop out
• lift out
• scoop up
• take up