Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Scoop \Scoop\, n. [OE. scope, of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. skopa,
   akin to D. schop a shovel, G. sch["u]ppe, and also to E.
   shove. See {Shovel}.]
   1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for
      dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.

   2. 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.

   3. (Surg.) A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting
      certain substances or foreign bodies.

   4. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.

            Some had lain in the scoop of the rock. --J. R.
                                                  Drake.

   5. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

   6. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a
      motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.

   {Scoop net}, a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net
      for sweeping the bottom of a river.

   {Scoop wheel}, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or
      buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.

Scoop \Scoop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scooped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Scooping}.] [OE. scopen. See {Scoop}, n.]
   1. To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.

            He scooped the water from the crystal flood.
                                                  --Dryden.

   2. To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.

   3. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig
      out; to form by digging or excavation.

            Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to
            hold above a pint.                    --Arbuthnot.

Scoop \Scoop\, n.
   A beat. [Newspaper Slang]

Scoop \Scoop\, v. t.
   To get a scoop, or a beat, on (a rival). [Newspaper Slang]

Source : WordNet®

scoop
     n 1: the quantity a scoop will hold [syn: {scoopful}]
     2: a hollow concave shape made by removing something [syn: {pocket}]
     3: a news report that is reported first by one news
        organization; "he got a scoop on the bribery of city
        officials" [syn: {exclusive}]
     4: street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate [syn: {soap}, {max},
        {liquid ecstasy}, {grievous bodily harm}, {goop}, {Georgia
        home boy}, {easy lay}]
     5: the shovel or bucket of dredge or backhoe [syn: {scoop
        shovel}]
     6: a large ladle; "he used a scoop to serve the ice cream"

scoop
     v 1: take out or up with or as if with a scoop; "scoop the sugar
          out of the container" [syn: {scoop out}, {lift out}, {scoop
          up}, {take up}]
     2: get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition"
        [syn: {outdo}, {outflank}, {trump}, {best}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

SCOOP
     
        Structured Concurrent Object-Oriented Prolog.
     
        ["SCOOP, Structured Concurrent Object-Oriented Prolog",
        J. Vaucher et al, in ECOOP '88, S. Gjessing et al eds, LNCS
        322, Springer 1988, pp.191-211].