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score-off

score-off noun: the action or result of scoring off someone (a rebuttal, a point won).

Noun

score-off (plural score-offs)

  1. (rare) The 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
    • […] 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

Forms of score-off

pluralscore-offs

Origin of score-off

Deverbal from score off.

Questions about score-off

What does score-off mean?
Score-off means the action or result of scoring off someone (a rebuttal, a point won).
What part of speech is score-off?
Score-off is a noun.
What is the plural of score-off?
The plural of score-off is score-offs.

Words near score-off in the dictionary

  1. score strings
  2. score through
  3. score up
  4. score-draw
  5. score-draws
  6. score-off
  7. score-offs
  8. score-settling
  9. score-settlings
  10. score-sheet
  11. score-sheets

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