Definition of "scoop"

scoop

/skuːp/

noun
plural scoops
1. Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
2. The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
3. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
4. A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
  Quotations
  "We may get a scoop, if we are lucky. You'll be there in any case, so you'll just give us a pretty full report."
  1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton
  The problem is that the public, disobediently giggling over their social media accounts, reckon they’ve already got the scoop without needing to see the film.
  2016 November 7, Peter Bradshaw, “Allied: what happens when a film gets eclipsed by gossip”, in The Guardian‎
5. (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
6. The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
7. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
  Quotations
  Some had lain in the scoop of the rock.
  1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay
8. A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
9. A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
10. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
11. (Scotland) The peak of a cap.
12. (pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
13. (surfing) The raised end of a surfboard.
  Quotations
  This brings the scoop into play as additional wetted surface and slows the board due to its fore-and-aft curvature
  1965, John M. Kelly, Surf and Sea, page 116
  [T]he scoop or upward curvature in the front or nose section of a board is designed to keep the board from diving under the surface of the water when the surfer is catching a wave.
  1977, Fred Hemmings, Surfing: Hawaii's Gift to the World of Sports, page 59
14. (film, television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
15. (slang, dated) A haul of money made through speculation.
16. (music) A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.
  Quotations
  Jazz symbols include many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits, fall-offs, and scoops.
  1995, Music & Computers, volume 1, numbers 2-4, page 57
verb
third-person singular simple present scoops, present participle scooping, simple past and past participle scooped
1. (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
  Quotations
  Their first clear opportunity duly came courtesy of a mistake from Russell Martin, who was hustled off the ball by Bale, but the midfielder scooped his finish well over the top as he bore down on the Norwich goal.
  2011 December 27, Mike Henson, “Norwich 0 - 2 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport‎
2. (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.
3. (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
4. (music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
5. (MTE, slang) To pick (someone) up