scoops

Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.

“She kept a scoop in the dog food.”

The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.

“I'll have one scoop of chocolate ice-cream.”

The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.

A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.

An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.

The digging attachment on a front-end loader.

A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.

A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.

A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.

A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

The peak of a cap.

A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.

To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.

“He used both hands to scoop water and splash it on his face.”

To make hollow; to dig out.

“I tried scooping a hole in the sand with my fingers.”

To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).

“The paper across town scooped them on the City Hall scandal.”

(often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.

To pick (someone) up

“You have a car. Can you come and scoop me?”