See scoop in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
- (Informal)
New information, especially about recent events and happenings:
advice (often used in plural), intelligence, news, tiding (often used in plural), word. See knowledge, words
verb
To break, turn over, or remove (earth or sand, for example) with or as if with a tool:
delve, dig, excavate, grub, shovel, spade. See enterTo take a substance, as liquid, from a container by plunging the hand or a utensil into it.
Also used with up: bail2, dip, lade, ladle. See giveTo make by digging:
dig, excavate, shovel. See make
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