n. - A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
n. - A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.
n. - A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
n. - A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
n. - A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
n. - The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
n. - To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.
n. - To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.
n. - To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.
n. - A beat.
v. t. - To get a scoop, or a beat, on (a rival).