Meaning of score-off | Babel Free

Definitions

The action or result of scoring off someone (a rebuttal, a point won).

rare

Examples

“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.”

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