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scoreboard

scoreboard noun: a large board that displays the score in a game or contest.

scoreboard: a large board that displays the score in a game or contest
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Noun

scoreboard (plural scoreboards)

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

Interjection

  1. A taunt that reminds someone that they are losing or have lost.
    • 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...2010 May 16, Mark Hentemann, “The Splendid Source”, in Family Guy, season 8, episode 19
    • ."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

scoreboard meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

scoreboard in Hindi

स्कोरबोर्ड, अंक-पट्टिका

scoreboard in Tamil

ஈட்டெண் பலகை

scoreboard in Marathi

गुणफलक, स्कोअरबोर्ड, स्कोरबोर्ड

scoreboard in Urdu

اسکور بورڈ, سکور بورڈ
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scoreboard in Bengali
স্কোরবোর্ড
scoreboard in Telugu
స్కోర్బోర్డ్, స్కోర్బోర్డు, స్కోర్ బోర్డ్
scoreboard in Malayalam
സ്കോർബോർഡ്, സ്കോർ ബോർഡ്
scoreboard in Kannada
ಸ್ಕೋರ್ಬೋರ್ಡ್, ಸ್ಕೋರ್ ಬೋರ್ಡ್, ಸ್ಕೋರ್ಬೋರ್ಡು
scoreboard in Punjabi
ਸਕੋਰਬੋਰਡ, ਸਕੋਰ ਬੋਰਡ
scoreboard in Gujarati
સ્કોરબોર્ડ, સ્કોઅરબોર્ડ, સ્કોર્ડબોર્ડ
scoreboard in Odia
ସ୍କୋରବୋର୍ଡ, ସ୍କୋରବୋର୍ଡ଼, ସ୍କୋର୍ବୋର୍ଡ
scoreboard in Nepali
स्कोरबोर्ड, स्कोर्डबोर्ड
scoreboard in Tagalog
palapuntusan, iskorbord

Examples of scoreboard in a sentence

  • 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.2010 September 1, Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry, Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity, U of Nebraska Press...
  • 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:

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Forms of scoreboard

pluralscoreboards

Plural of scoreboard: scoreboards

Origin of scoreboard

From score + board.

Words formed from scoreboard

Questions about scoreboard

What does scoreboard mean?
Scoreboard means a large board that displays the score in a game or contest.
What is scoreboard in Hindi?
Scoreboard in Hindi is स्कोरबोर्ड, अंक-पट्टिका. See Scoreboard meaning in Hindi.
How do you use scoreboard in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is scoreboard?
Scoreboard can be a noun or an interjection.
What is the plural of scoreboard?
The plural of scoreboard is scoreboards.

Words near scoreboard in the dictionary

  1. score-settling
  2. score-settlings
  3. score-sheet
  4. score-sheets
  5. scoreable
  6. scoreboard
  7. scoreboards
  8. scorebook
  9. scorebooks
  10. scorebox
  11. scoreboxes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: scoreboard (page history and authors); scoreboard (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); scoreboard (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); scoreboard (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); scoreboard (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); scoreboard (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); scoreboard (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); scoreboard (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); scoreboard (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); scoreboard (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); scoreboard (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); scoreboard (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); scoreboard (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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