SCOOP: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for SCOOP?

Need another word that means the same as “scoop”? Find 43 synonyms and 30 related words for “scoop” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Scoop” are: georgia home boy, goop, liquid ecstasy, max, soap, pocket, scoopful, scoop shovel, exclusive, spoon, ladle, dipper, spoonful, portion, lump, ball, exclusive story, inside story, exposé, revelation, lift out, scoop out, scoop up, take up, best, outdo, outflank, trump, hollow out, gouge out, dig, excavate, cut out, remove, take out, spoon out, scrape out, ladle out, pick up, gather up, lift, sweep up, catch up

Scoop as a Noun

Definitions of "Scoop" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “scoop” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A moving bowl-shaped part of a digging machine, dredger, or other mechanism into which material is gathered.
• A utensil resembling a spoon, with a short handle and a deep bowl, used for removing dry or semi-solid substances from a container.
• A quantity taken up by a scoop.
• A large ladle.
• A long-handled surgical instrument that resembles a spoon.
• Street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate.
• The quantity a scoop will hold.
• A news report that is reported first by one news organization.
• The shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe.
• A short-handled deep shovel used for moving grain, coal, etc.
• An exaggerated upward slide or portamento in singing.
• The latest information about something.
• A hollow concave shape made by removing something.
• A piece of news published by a newspaper or broadcast by a television or radio station in advance of its rivals.

Synonyms of "Scoop" as a noun (20 Words)

ball	Baseball. The ball rolled into the corner pocket.
dipper	A cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor at the end of the dipper s handle is Polaris.
exclusive	A news report that is reported first by one news organization.
exclusive story	A news report that is reported first by one news organization.
exposé	The exposure of an impostor or a fraud.
georgia home boy	Base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score.
goop	Sloppy or sticky semi-fluid matter, typically something unpleasant.
inside story	The region that is inside of something.
ladle	A large long-handled spoon with a cup-shaped bowl, used for serving soup or sauce. She dipped the ladle into the casserole dish.
liquid ecstasy	The state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility.
lump	A swelling under the skin, especially one caused by injury or disease. There was a lump of ice floating in the milk.
max	A maximum amount or setting. The sound is distorted to the max.
pocket	A small isolated group of people. The pack has two main compartments and four pockets.
portion	Assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group. A portion of the jetty still stands.
revelation	The last book of the New Testament recounting a divine revelation of the future to St John. A divine revelation.
scoop shovel	The quantity a scoop will hold.
scoopful	The quantity a scoop will hold.
soap	A soap opera. A bar of soap.
spoon	A thing resembling a spoon in shape. Three spoons of sugar.
spoonful	As much as a spoon will hold. Add a spoonful of honey to a glass of hot water.

Usage Examples of "Scoop" as a noun

• He got a scoop on the bribery of city officials.
• Reporters at the city's three tabloid papers usually compete for scoops.
• An apple pie with scoops of ice cream on top.
• He used a scoop to serve the ice cream.
• ‘What's the scoop, old-timer.
• The powder is packed in tubs in which a measuring scoop is provided.

Scoop as a Verb

Definitions of "Scoop" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “scoop” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Win (an amount of money, a prize, or a trophy.
• Pick up (someone or something) in a swift, fluid movement.
• Take out or up with or as if with a scoop.
• (in singing) preface notes with an exaggerated upward slide or portamento.
• Create (a hollow or hole) with or as if with a scoop.
• Pick up and move (something) with a scoop.
• Get the better of.
• Publish a news story before (a rival reporter, newspaper, or broadcaster.

Synonyms of "Scoop" as a verb (23 Words)

best	Outwit or get the better of (someone. She refused to allow herself to be bested.
catch up	Catch up with and possibly overtake.
cut out	Cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch.
dig	Remove harvest or recover by digging. He had no compunction about digging into her private affairs.
excavate	Reveal or extract (buried remains) while excavating an area. Excavate a cavity.
gather up	Get people together.
gouge out	Make a groove in.
hollow out	Remove the inner part or the core of.
ladle out	Put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle.
lift	Raise (a person’s spirits or confidence. That night the army came and lifted Buckley.
lift out	Take (root crops) out of the ground.
outdo	Be superior to in action or performance. She outdoes all other athletes.
outflank	Get the better of. An attempt to outflank the opposition.
pick up	Pilfer or rob.
remove	Remove from a position or an office. They removed thousands of needy youngsters from the benefit system.
scoop out	Take out or up with or as if with a scoop.
scoop up	Get the better of.
scrape out	Make by scraping.
spoon out	Snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others.
sweep up	Clean by sweeping.
take out	Take into one’s possession.
take up	Accept or undergo, often unwillingly.
trump	Produce a sound as if from a trumpet. Why on earth did you trump my ace.

Usage Examples of "Scoop" as a verb

• She has a tendency to scoop up to the initial notes of phrases.
• Scoop the sugar out of the container.
• They scooped £250,000 on the pools.
• A hole was scooped out in the floor of the dwelling.
• He laughed and scooped her up in his arms.
• I scooped the grain into the bag.
• Time and again we have scooped our rivals with the top stories and pictures.

Associations of "Scoop" (30 Words)

archaeologist	A person who studies human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artefacts and other physical remains. Chinese archaeologists uncovered life sized terracotta statues.
ax	Chop or split with an ax. The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it.
bucket	The contents of a bucket or the amount it can contain. As the chain turns the buckets bite into the canal bed and scoop out the mud.
burrow	A hole or tunnel dug by a small animal, especially a rabbit, as a dwelling. Burrow through the forest.
chopstick	One of a pair of slender sticks used as oriental tableware to eat food with.
concavity	The property possessed by a concave shape. The concavity of her stomach.
delve	Reach inside a receptacle and search for something. The society is determined to delve deeper into the matter.
dig	Create by digging. Apart from digging a site recording evidence is important.
disinter	Dig up (something that has been buried, especially a corpse. He has disinterred an important collection of writings.
dug	An udder or breast or teat.
excavate	Remove earth carefully from (an area) in order to find buried remains. Excavate gold.
excavation	The act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth. There s an interesting excavation going on near Princeton.
exhume	Dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies. The bodies were exhumed on the orders of a judge.
fork	Denoting a light meal or buffet that may be eaten solely with a fork while standing. Turn right at the next fork.
inflection	The variation of the pitch of a musical note. The point of inflection of the bell shaped curve.
ladle	Put a liquid into a container by means of a ladle. Ladle soup into the bowl.
lift	Lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building. The European Community lifted its oil embargo against South Africa.
mallet	A hammer with a large, usually wooden head.
mine	Lay mines. Mine ores and metals.
pit	A person s armpit. A gravel pit.
plow	Move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil. Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week.
quarry	Extract stone or other materials from a quarry. A British term for quarry is stone pit.
shovel	Move coal earth snow or a similar substance with a shovel. He shovelled in the backyard all afternoon long.
spatula	An implement with a broad, flat, blunt blade, used for mixing and spreading things, especially in cooking and painting.
spoon	A thing resembling a spoon in shape. He added two spoons of sugar.
tomb	A place for the burial of a corpse especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone. The house was as quiet as a tomb.
trowel	Apply or spread with or as if with a trowel. A garden trowel.
underground	A member of an underground political group or movement. The New York underground art scene.
unearth	Bring to light. The CIA unearthed a plot to kill the President.
utensil	An implement for practical use (especially in a household. Kitchen utensils.