1. [n]  a large ladle; "he used a scoop to serve the ice cream"
2. [n]  the shovel or bucket of dredge or backhoe
3. [n]  a news report that is reported first by one news organization; "he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials"
4. [n]  the quantity a scoop will hold
5. [n]  a hollow concave shape made by removing something
6. [v]  get the better of
7. [v]  take out or up with or as if with a scoop
8. [v]  profit suddenly

SCOOP is a 5 letter word that starts with S.

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

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

3. \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.
   
   

4. \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.
   
   

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].