scores

score  (skôr, skr)

n.

1. A notch or incision, especially one that is made to keep a tally.

2. Sports & Games

a. A usually numerical record of a competitive event: keeping score.

b. The total number of points made by each competitor or side in a contest, either final or at a given stage: The score stood tied in the bottom of the ninth inning.

c. The number of points attributed to a competitor or team.

3. A result, usually expressed numerically, of a test or examination.

4.

a. An amount due; a debt.

b. A grievance that is harbored and requires satisfaction: settle an old score.

5. A ground; a reason.

6. A group of 20 items.

7. scores Large numbers: Scores of people attended the rally.

8. Music

a. The notation of a musical work.

b. The written form of a composition for orchestral or vocal parts.

c. The music written for a film or a play.

9. Slang

a. The act of securing an advantage, especially a surprising or significant gain: "He had dropped out of school and gone for that quick dollar, that big score" (Peter Goldman).

b. The act or an instance of buying illicit drugs.

c. A successful robbery.

d. A sexual conquest.

v. scored, scor·ing, scores

v.tr.

1. To mark with lines or notches, especially for the purpose of keeping a record.

2. To cancel or eliminate by or as if by superimposing lines.

3. To mark the surface of (meat, for example) with usually parallel cuts.

4. Sports & Games

a. To gain (a point) in a game or contest.

b. To count or be worth as points: A basket scores two points.

c. To keep a written record of the score or events of (a game or contest).

d. Baseball To cause (a base runner) to cross home plate, especially by getting a hit: scored both runners with a double.

5. To achieve; win.

6. To evaluate and assign a grade to.

7. Music

a. To orchestrate.

b. To arrange for a specific instrument.

8. To criticize cuttingly; berate.

9. Slang

a. To succeed in acquiring: scored two tickets to the play.

b. To succeed in obtaining (an illicit drug): "Aging punks try to impress her with tales of . . . the different drugs they've scored" (Art Jahnke).

v.intr.

1. Sports & Games

a. To make a point in a game or contest.

b. To keep the score of a game or contest.

2. Slang

a. To achieve a purpose or advantage, especially to make a surprising gain or coup: "They . . . score in places like the bond market" (Mike Barnicle).

b. To succeed in seducing someone sexually.

c. To succeed in buying or obtaining an illicit drug.

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[Middle English, from Old English scoru, twenty, from Old Norse skor; see sker-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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scorer n.

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Noun

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scores - a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers" dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, rafts, scads, slews, stacks, tons, wads, piles large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity - an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude