If you scoop a person or thing somewhere, you put your hands or arms under or round them and quickly move them there.

If you scoop something from a container, you remove it with something such as a spoon.

A scoop is an object like a spoon which is used for picking up a quantity of a food such as ice cream or an ingredient such as flour.

You can use scoop to refer to an exciting news story which is reported in one newspaper or on one television programme before it appears anywhere else.

If a newspaper scoops other newspapers, it succeeds in printing an exciting or important story before they do.

If you scoop a prize or award, you win it.

If something such as a dress has a scoop neck or a scooped neck, the neck has the shape of a wide, deep curve at the front.