scoreboard

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noun

A large board that displays the score in a game or contest.

CommonScrabble 15

Meanings

nounscoreboard (plural scoreboards)

plural scoreboards

  1. A large board that displays the score in a game or contest.
  2. ball gamesA similar board that also displays each batsman's score, and many statistics and pieces of information.
  3. broadlyA listing of various similar entities along with their properties, such as status or rank.

    If you are curious about what each of those processes were doing last, just scroll down the page to the table and find the process of the correct number in the scoreboard.

    2012, Kyle Rankin, DevOps Troubleshooting: Linux Server Best Practices, →ISBN
    1 more example

    As a result of the Santiago Principles and other parallel efforts at education such as the SWF scoreboard that I have featured in my research, a substantial amount of distrust surrounding SWFs has been defused.

    2010, Edwin M. Truman, Sovereign Wealth Funds: Threat Or Salvation?, →ISBN, page 8
interjection
  1. A taunt that reminds someone that they are losing or have lost.

    ."Scoreboard, baby! Scoreboard!" Bella taunted, pocketing her winnings as a red X went over K. C. Mack's mug shot.

    2010 June 15, Rob Hedden, The Condemned, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 225
    3 more examples

    Glenn Quagmire: And there's the Vietnam War memorial. Peter Griffin: Hey, check out that Vietnamese guy giving the business to those Vietnam vets. Vietnamese Civilian: [to a pair of American Vietnam War veterans] Scoreboard! Scoreboard! Aw, what happened to your friend? Hey, I know that guy. I kill him. He cry like a bitch! Vietnam! Undefeated!

    2010 May 16, Mark Hentemann, “The Splendid Source”, in Family Guy, season 8, episode 19

    When Neuheisel learned of Bellotti's comments, he offered a simple rebuttal: "Scoreboard, baby." Two words to end all arguments, two words to silence any complaint. Scoreboard, baby.

    2010 September 1, Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry, Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 146

    For the rest of the game, all I would say to him when he taunted me was "scoreboard." Every single word that came out of his mouth was met with my response of "scoreboard."

    2021 October 19, Noe Garcia, Repurposed: How God Turns Your Mess into His Message, B&H Publishing Group, →ISBN

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)ker-
  2. Proto-Germanic*skurō
  3. Old Norseskor
  4. Old Englishscoru
  5. Middle Englishscore
  6. Englishscore
  7. Proto-Germanic*burdą
  8. Proto-West Germanic*bord
  9. Old Englishbord
  10. Middle Englishbord
  11. Englishboard
  12. Englishscoreboard

From score + board.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Basque markagailu
  • markagailuboard that displays the score in a game of contest
Bulgarian табло
  • табло (tablo)board that displays the score in a game of contest
Catalan marcador
  • marcadorboard that displays the score in a game of contest
Chinese Mandarin 記分牌 /记分牌
  • 記分牌 /记分牌 (jìfēnpái)board that displays the score in a game of contest
Dutch scorebord
  • scorebordboard that displays the score in a game of contest
Finnish tulostaulu, ottelutaulu
  • tulostauluboard that displays the score in a game of contest
  • ottelutauluboard that displays the score in a game of contest
French tableau d'affichage
  • tableau d'affichageboard that displays the score in a game of contest
German Anzeigetafel
  • Anzeigetafelboard that displays the score in a game of contest
Irish scórchlár
  • scórchlárboard that displays the score in a game of contest
Japanese スコアボード, 得点板
  • スコアボード (sukoabōdo)board that displays the score in a game of contest
  • 得点板 (tokuten'ita)board that displays the score in a game of contest
Korean 스코어보드, 득점판
  • 스코어보드 (seuko'eobodeu)board that displays the score in a game of contest
  • 득점판 (deukjeompan)board that displays the score in a game of contest
  • 점수판 (jeomsupan)board that displays the score in a game of contest
Māori papa tātai
  • papa tātaiboard that displays the score in a game of contest
Polish tablica wyników
  • tablica wynikówboard that displays the score in a game of contest
Portuguese placar
  • placarboard that displays the score in a game of contest
Romanian tabelă de marcaj
  • tabelă de marcajboard that displays the score in a game of contest
Russian табло́, доска́ счёта
  • табло́ (tabló)board that displays the score in a game of contest
  • доска́ счёта (doská sčóta)board that displays the score in a game of contest
  • информацио́нная доска́ (informaciónnaja doská)board that displays the score in a game of contest
Spanish marcador, tanteador
  • marcadorboard that displays the score in a game of contest
  • tanteadorboard that displays the score in a game of contest
Tagalog palapuntusan, iskorbord
  • palapuntusanboard that displays the score in a game of contest
  • iskorbordboard that displays the score in a game of contest
Welsh bwrdd sgorio
  • bwrdd sgorioboard that displays the score in a game of contest
Cite this entry
APA

scoreboard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scoreboard

MLA

“scoreboard.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scoreboard. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scoreboard,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scoreboard.

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