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as in spoon
a utensil with a bowl and a handle that is used especially in cooking and serving food
an ice cream scoop
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as in tip
information not generally available to the public
come on, I know you've got the scoop on their breakup
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as in spoons
a utensil with a bowl and a handle that is used especially in cooking and serving food
an ice cream scoop
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as in buckets
to lift out with something that holds liquid
scooped broth out of the pan with a spoon
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Recent Examples of scoop
Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 6 May 2025
Children play in the shade of budding oak trees, and women from Mexico and Ecuador ring handbells and scoop ice cream from red carts.
—Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 16 May 2025
The youngster brushed off San Siro heartbreak suffered midweek against Inter Milan in the Champions League semifinals, and was in top form against Carlo Ancelotti’s men for a tie that could essentially scoop La Liga this term.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
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Noun
The real behind-the-scenes scoop is that I was slated to direct a different episode.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 6 May 2025
Children play in the shade of budding oak trees, and women from Mexico and Ecuador ring handbells and scoop ice cream from red carts.
—Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Verb
Conservationists scooped 17 wriggling hellbenders out of their tanks in Tennessee and took them on a journey to release the largest salamanders in North America back into the wild.
—Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 16 May 2025
The youngster brushed off San Siro heartbreak suffered midweek against Inter Milan in the Champions League semifinals, and was in top form against Carlo Ancelotti’s men for a tie that could essentially scoop La Liga this term.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
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“Scoop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scoop. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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