0 past simple and past participle of scoop --
1 to move something with a scoop or with something used as a scoop: --
2 to get a large number of votes or prizes: --
The party is expected to scoop up the majority of the working-class vote.
3 to be the first newspaper to discover and print an important news story: --
Once again that is a pot of gold and a windfall of £5 billion just waiting to be scooped in.
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.
Then they cut down and simply scooped the coal out.
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.
Even the strongest management would have avoided involving its paper in a strike and seeing its circulation scooped up by one of its competitors.
