score

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse

   Calling the seduction a 'score' was a typical example of locker room slang.

2. 2
   noun

   the act of scoring in a game or sport

   the winning score came with less than a minute left to play

3. 3
   noun

   the facts about an actual situation

   They didn't know the score.

4. 4
   noun

   a set of twenty members

   a score were sent out but only one returned

5. 5
   noun

   a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest

   the score was 7 to 0

6. 6
   noun

   an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar)

   add it to my score and I'll settle later

7. 7
   verb

   gain points in a game

   The home team scored many times

8. 8
   verb

   get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance

   I scored high on the SAT.

Etymology

From Middle English score, skore, schore, from Old English scoru (“notch; tally; score”), from Old Norse skor, from Proto-Germanic *skurō (“incision; tear; rift”), which is related to *skeraną (“to cut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“cut”). Cognate with Icelandic skora, Swedish skåra, Danish skår. Related to shear. For the sense “twenty”: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate.