scoop

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
2. 2
   The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
3. 3
   The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
4. 4
   A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
5. 5
   An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
6. 6
   The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
7. 7
   A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
8. 8
   A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
9. 9
   A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
10. 10
    A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
11. 11
    The peak of a cap.
12. 12
    A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
13. 13
    The raised end of a surfboard.
14. 14
    A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
15. 15
    A haul of money made through speculation.
16. 16
    A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.

Verb

1. 1
   To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
2. 2
   To make hollow; to dig out.
3. 3
   To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
4. 4
   To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
5. 5
   To pick (someone) up