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Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995.

scoop

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:	1. 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 ENTER. 2. To make by digging: dig, excavate, shovel. See MAKE. 3. To 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 GIVE.


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