A Quick and Simple Dictionary

spoon

1. Noun.  An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
2. Noun.  An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
3. Noun.  A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
4. Noun.  (sports, archaic) A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern three wood.
5. Noun.  (fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a table spoon.
6. Noun.  (dentistry, informal) A spoon excavator.
7. Noun.  (figuratively) A simpleton, a spooney.
8. Verb.  To serve using a spoon.
9. Verb.  (intransitive, dated) To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously.
10. Verb.  (intransitive, informal) To lie nestled closely together front-to-back, following the contours of ones' bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons fitting within one another in a drawer. (Usually has a sexual connotation.).
11. Verb.  (nautical) To turn to port and starboard erratically for short periods of time, in the manner of a sailing boat heading nearly directly into a shifting wind.