score-off

noun

The action or result of scoring off someone (a rebuttal, a point won).

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Meanings

nounscore-off (plural score-offs)

plural score-offs

  1. rareThe action or result of scoring off someone (a rebuttal, a point won).

    There were a thousand and one gems of café-chatter, of tit-for-tattle – of score-offs and well-rubbed-ins.

    1930, Wyndham Lewis, The Apes of God, page 354
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    […] the Minister should come in here and use the occasion of the making of his statement on such an important matter as the Estimate for his Department as a political score-off on his opponents.

    1955, Oireachtas [Irish Parliament], Díosbóireachtaí párlaiminte: tuairisc oifigiúil [Parliamentary debates: official report], volume 150, p. 294

Origin

Deverbal from score off.

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APA

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“score-off.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/score-off. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “score-off,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/score-off.

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