score-off

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.80 in modern English

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noun

"There were a thousand and one gems of café-chatter, of tit-for-tattle – of score-offs and well-rubbed-ins."
"[…] 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."

Deverbal from score off.

score-offs (plural)

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