scooping

4 definitions • 3 examples

present participle of

to move something with a scoop or with something used as a scoop:

He scooped the sand into a bucket with his hands.

to get a large number of votes or prizes:

The party is expected to scoop up the majority of the working-class vote.

to be the first newspaper to discover and print an important news story:

Just as we were about to publish the story, we were scooped by a rival paper.