The word scoop has several meanings:

1. A tool shaped like a deep spoon or small shovel, used for lifting and moving things like ice cream, flour, or sand. An ice cream scoop has a curved bowl that creates those perfect round balls of ice cream. A coal scoop might be much larger. When you scoop something, you're lifting it with one of these tools or with your cupped hands, like scooping up water from a stream.
2. An important news story that one reporter discovers and publishes before anyone else. When a journalist gets the scoop, they've learned something newsworthy that their competitors don't know yet. A newspaper that scoops its rivals breaks the story first and gets credit for the discovery. You might ask a friend, “What's the scoop?” when you want to know the latest information about something.
3. To pick something up in a sweeping motion. A parent might scoop up a tired child in their arms, or you might scoop your books off a desk as you rush to class.