SCOOP


Meaning of SCOOP in English

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( scoops, scooping, scooped)

1.

If you scoop a person or thing somewhere, you put your hands or arms under or round them and quickly move them there.

Michael knelt next to her and scooped her into his arms.

VERB : V n prep / adv

2.

If you scoop something from a container, you remove it with something such as a spoon.

...the sound of a spoon scooping dog food out of a can.

VERB : V n prep / adv

3.

A scoop is an object like a spoon which is used for picking up a quantity of a food such as ice cream or an ingredient such as flour.

...a small ice-cream scoop.

N-COUNT

4.

You can use scoop to refer to an exciting news story which is reported in one newspaper or on one television programme before it appears anywhere else.

...one of the biggest scoops in the history of newspapers.

N-COUNT

5.

If a newspaper scoops other newspapers, it succeeds in printing an exciting or important story before they do.

All the newspapers really want to do is scoop the opposition.

VERB : V n

6.

If you scoop a prize or award, you win it. ( JOURNALISM )

...films which scooped awards around the world.

VERB : V n

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