Definition of "scoop out" []

• Hollow out with a scoop (verb)
• Take out or up with or as if with a scoop (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Another neighbor used dehorners to scoop out the tiny horn buttons, and a third person vaccinated the calf."
• "Lime juice, sugar, rum, scoop out half a Crenshaw melon, add ice."
• "Dogs, when they wish to go to sleep on a carpet or other hard surface, generally turn round and round and scratch the ground with their fore-paws in a senseless manner, as if they intended to trample down the grass and scoop out a hollow, as no doubt their wild parents did, when they lived on open grassy plains or in the woods."