score-offs

A form of score-off — The action or result of scoring off someone (a rebuttal, a point won).

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of score-off

    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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APA

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Chicago

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

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