score off
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.80 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To defeat (especially in an argument), get the better of, achieve a success over, gain an advantage or win points over, make a point to the detriment or at the expense of, make appear foolish. Sometimes with particle on (someone).
Slang; Transitive verb
verb
To delete or remove (especially from a list); to score out, strike out or strike off, cross out or cross off; to draw a line through.
Transitive verb
verb
To defeat (someone) verbally; to win a confrontation with words; to tell (someone) off.
Archaic; Slang; Transitive verb
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see score, off. To score from.
Example Sentences
- "The old hag never missed out on any opportunity to score off on her daughter-in-law."
- "Whether it was politics, trade, competition in industry, snobbery, boasting, self-advertisement, or gossip, the object was to score off one's adversary and put him down."
- "Aunt Laura wore an air of overpowering satisfaction. Evidently she had already triumphed, and she smiled so cheerfully at Edwin that he felt convinced that she had scored him off in some way."
- "You'd be worked up if you had just been scored off by Aubrey Upjohn, with that loathsome self-satisfied look on his face as if he'd been rebuking a pimply pupil at his beastly school for shuffling his feet in church."
- "You can score off my name, I quit."
- "You can score my name off, I quit."
Etymology
score + off