Definition of scoop

• n. - A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
• n. - A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.
• n. - A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
• n. - A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
• n. - A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
• n. - The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
• n. - To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.
• n. - To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.
• n. - To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.