scoop

The word “scoop” means a cup-shaped tool, or the utensil's bowl-shaped end, used for lifting and serving loose material like ice cream or flour. In plain terms, either the tool/motion for lifting loose material, or a news story broken first.

“Scoop” is pronounced skoop (/skup/ in IPA).

Here is “scoop” used in a sentence: “He used an ice cream scoop to serve dessert.”

Depending on how it is used, “scoop” can be a noun and a verb.

The word “scoop” comes from Middle English. From Middle English scope/schoupe, borrowed from Middle Dutch words for a bucket or shovel used for bailing water, ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to cut or scrape.".

“Scoop” is an uncommon word in modern English.

“Scoop” has 4 distinct senses listed in this dictionary. The most common is: a cup-shaped tool, or the utensil's bowl-shaped end, used for lifting and serving loose material like ice cream or flour.

A scoop is a news story a reporter publishes before any rival outlet gets it, while "exclusive" is often used to describe the same achievement. In practice the terms overlap, though "scoop" more strongly implies beating the competition to a breaking story.

To scoop a rival means to publish a news story before they do, gaining credit for breaking it first. The verb can also simply mean to lift or gather something with a scooping motion, as with a scoop of ice cream.

The "inside scoop" refers to exclusive or insider information about a situation before it becomes widely known, drawing on the journalistic sense of scoop as a story reported first. It is commonly used informally to mean the latest gossip or details.