scoop

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scoop/skuːp/

▶noun

• 1 a utensil resembling a spoon, having a short handle and a deep bowl, used for extracting liquids or substances from a container.

  ■ the bowl-shaped part of a digging machine or dredger.

  ■ a long-handled spoon-like surgical instrument.

• 2 informal a piece of news published or broadcast in advance of being released by other newspapers or broadcast stations.

  ■ (the scoop) N. Amer. the latest news.

• 3 an exaggerated upward slide or portamento in singing.

▶verb

• 1 pick up with a scoop.

  ■ create (a hollow) with or as if with a scoop.

  ■ pick or gather up in a swift, fluid movement: he laughed and scooped her up in his arms.

• 2 informal publish a scoop.

• 3 win.

– derivatives
scooper noun,
scoopful noun (pl. scoopfuls).

– origin ME: from MDu., Mid. Low Ger. schōpe ‘waterwheel bucket’; rel. to shape.