0 a tool with a deep bowl-shaped end that is used to dig out and move a soft substance or powder: --
1 a story or piece of news discovered and published by one newspaper before all the others: --
2 to move something with a scoop or with something used as a scoop: --
3 to get a large number of votes or prizes: --
The party is expected to scoop up the majority of the working-class vote.
4 to be the first newspaper to discover and print an important news story: --
5 a tool with a handle and a curved, open end, used to dig out and move an amount of something: --
He scooped her up and took her to hospital and saved her life.
They are scooped up in our great education system and go off and do something else.
By comparison, the finest scoops of today's tabloid press are very feeble affairs.
Then they cut down and simply scooped the coal out.
In essence, the consultation paper is scooping in nature.
Alternatively, he might abandon all attempts to report the reading, and risk finding that some more assiduous rival had scooped him.
I was photographed with him as he scooped out the ice and said that it was a splendid development.
The remains of that 16-year-old boy were scooped up in a plastic bag.
