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result noun- the winning score in a sporting contest; a victory in any sport UK, 1981
Conventionally “result” means “outcome”, hence a “good result”; this usage clips and implies the positive adjective, exclusively acquiring the result for victors and so denying losers any achievement. - a satisfying or appropriate outcome; an achievement UK, 1973
- It’s always nice to get a result over those [wheel] clamping cunts, ain’t it? — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, p. 88, 2000
- And Ian [Dury], he’d be well chuffed. “Result!” he’d go, laughing, the Pearly King chuckling from the Pearly Gates. Yes, Ian. Result. — BP Fallon, Brand New Boots and Panties, 2001
- But this is just another case of female stopping play / On otherwise a total result of a holiday[.] — Mike Skinner, Fit But You Know It, 2004
- a successful or profitable robbery UK
- I’ve just had a result. Cop this pony, and buy him some fags. — Lenny McLean, The Guv’nor, p. 92, 1998
- an arrest or a criminal conviction UK
- If they [officers] get it right, they get a result, they get a conviction[.] — The Guardian, 23 September 2004
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