scooper Definition

scoop
verb scooped, scooping

1. To lift, dig or remove it with a sweeping circular movement.

Form: scoop something up (also)
2. To empty or hollow it with such movements.

Form: scoop something out (also)
3. To bail out (water).
4. To do better than (rival newspapers) in being the first to publish a story.

noun

1. A spoonlike implement for handling or serving food.

Thesaurus: ladle, spoon, dipper.
2. A hollow shovel or lipped container for skimming or shovelling up loose material.
3. Anything of a similar shape.
4. A scooping movement.
5. A quantity scooped.
6. A container for bailing out (water).
7. surgery.
A scooplike implement used for removing foreign material from the body.
8. A news story printed by one newspaper in advance of all others.

Thesaurus: exclusive, coup, exposé, inside story, revelation, latest, lowdown, gossip.
9. The forestalling of other papers in obtaining such a news story.

Derivative: scooper
noun

Derivative: scoopful
noun

Etymology: 14c: from Dutch schoppe shovel.