| 1. spoon, ladle; tool for scooping or digging; hollow, cavity; act of scooping or digging; quantity that fills one scoop; (Slang) exclusive news story reported by one newspaper (or television station, etc.); large profit (Slang). dig, pick up material with a shovel or similar tool; pick up material with a spoon; publish a news story before every other newspaper (or television station, etc.); dig out, hollow out, create a cavity. news report, story What's the scoop on the murder? Do you know who did it?. scoopup take out or up with or as if with a scoop [syn: scoop, scoop out , lift out, take up] |