scoop — OET · Shobdo

scoop

noun

1 a measuring scoop is provided:

spoon, ladle, dipper;

bailer.

2 add a scoop of vanilla ice cream:

spoonful, ladleful, portion, lump, ball;

informal dollop.

3 informal reporters at the three tabloid papers competed for scoops:

exclusive (story), inside story, exposé, revelation;

coup;

the latest.

verb

1 a hole was scooped out in the floor:

hollow out, gouge out, dig, excavate, cut out.

2 halve the potatoes, scoop out the flesh and mash it with the yogurt mixture:

remove, take out, spoon out, scrape out, ladle out;

bail out.

3 she scooped up armfuls of clothes and dumped them on the bed:

pick up, gather up, lift, sweep up, catch up, take up;

snatch up, grab;

remove, clear away.

▷antonyms drop.

scoop Oxford Dictionary of English