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Meaning of scoop

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  scoop
      n 1: the quantity a scoop will hold [syn: {scoop}, {scoopful}]
      2: a hollow concave shape made by removing something [syn:
         {scoop}, {pocket}]
      3: a news report that is reported first by one news
         organization; "he got a scoop on the bribery of city
         officials" [syn: {exclusive}, {scoop}]
      4: street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate [syn: {soap}, {scoop},
         {max}, {liquid ecstasy}, {grievous bodily harm}, {goop},
         {Georgia home boy}, {easy lay}]
      5: the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe [syn: {scoop},
         {scoop shovel}]
      6: a large ladle; "he used a scoop to serve the ice cream"
      v 1: take out or up with or as if with a scoop; "scoop the sugar
           out of the container" [syn: {scoop}, {scoop out}, {lift
           out}, {scoop up}, {take up}]
      2: get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition"
         [syn: {outdo}, {outflank}, {trump}, {best}, {scoop}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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