Scoop (Transformers)
WordNet
noun
(1) A large ladle
"He used a scoop to serve the ice cream"
(2) The shovel or bucket of 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) The quantity a scoop will hold
(6) A hollow concave shape made by removing something
verb
(7) Get the better of
"The goal was to best the competition"
(8) Take out or up with or as if with a scoop
"Scoop the sugar out of the container"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually including a handle used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- She kept a scoop in the dog food
- 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
- 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.
Verb
- To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- He used both hands to scoop water and splash it on his face.
- To learn something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
- The paper across town scooped them on the City Hall scandal.
- To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
- To consume an alcoholic beverage.
- He was caught scooping in the local park.
Noun
scoop
- scoop (news learned and reported before anyone else)