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score

Definition

  • noun: the number of points, goals, runs, etc., that each player or team has in a game or contest
  • noun: a group of 20 things
  • verb: to get points, goals, runs, etc., in a game or contest
  • verb: to keep a record or account of by or as if by notches on a tally
  • usually + 'of'
  • synonyms: twenty, record, bill

Examples

  • Only one person had/got a 'perfect score' on the test. [=only one person answered all the questions correctly]

  • If you're 'keeping score' at home, this is the third time that he has run for mayor and lost.

  • The 'score' was tied at 1–1 [=each team had scored one run] after the second inning.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) OK, put it in your pocket. It's yours. With the rest of those wallets and the register... that makes this a pretty successful little score. VINCENT: Jules, you give that fuckin' nimrod $... and I'll shoot him on general principle. No, Yolanda, Yolanda! (..)
    1994 Pulp Fiction