Most people think of ice cream when they think of the noun scoop but journalists who get a story before others do get a scoop, and dog owners need to scoop up after their dogs or else they will get a ticket for littering.
When a newspaper reporter gets a scoop, it means they beat every other reporter to publish an important story. Other meanings of scoop come from the shape and motion of a scoop, which is hollowed out and looks kind of like a pocket. Also, if you pick up a little dog into your arms, you might say you scooped it up. Scoop is one of many words that can be a noun and a verb, even in the same sentence: when you go to an ice cream shop you can ask your server to give you one, two, or three scoops.
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the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe
take out or up with or as if with a scoop
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a news report that is reported first by one news organization
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street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
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get the better of
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