scoop

Definitions

• Any cup- 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.
• (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 emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
• A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
• (Scotland) The peak of a cap.
• (pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.