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score verb- to obtain something, especially drugs and especially dishonestly US, 1914
- We covered Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Jersey City, and Newark. We couldn’t even score for pentapon. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 37, 1953
- We go outside the city and score and everything is crazy. — Jack Gerber, The Connection, p. 67, 1957
- He had heard I was in town and wanted to know if I wanted to score. — Alexander Trocchi, Cain’s Book, p. 19, 1960
- January of 1945 I was out of bread and I hadn’t scored musically[.] — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 35, 1967
- I said, “Top, I’m frayed. I sure wish I had a snort of ‘gir.’ Can you score?” — Iceberg Slim(Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 128, 1969
- People too cheap to rent a hotel, people scoring dope, people shooting up, people who want to embarrass you. — Taxi Driver, 1976
- Alvy, listen, while you’re in California, could you possibly score some coke for me? — Annie Hall, 1977
- “I scored a whole pack this time,” Pup said[.] — Francesca Lia Block, Baby Be-Bop, p. 402, 1995
- Eventually my mate says, “fancy scoring a pill?” and I go “sure, go ahead”. So we sort of score a pill off these really large raggas[.] — Ben Malbon, Cool Places, p. 272, 1998
- We sometimes went downtown to score. — Traffic, 2000
- to make a sexual conquest AUSTRALIA, 1907
- The one time I almost scored was in this hotel. The chick came up to my room after she fell for what I call my innocuous come-on ... — Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, p. 161, 1965
- On my innumerable business trips I’ve bumped into plenty of these randy Brit sheilahs and I could have hit the odd one between the legs like a plate of porridge too, but I’ve never scored with one. — Barry Humphries, The Traveller’s Tool, p. 99, 1985
- So we could score with the babes. — Wayne’s World 2, 1993
- Sherman meets a chick for one night and scores. This is just wrong. — American Pie, 1999
- She’d better do something about that hair of hers, I thought, if she wanted to score with Strauss tonight. — Rita Ciresi, Pink Slip, p. 328, 1999
- (of a police officer) to extract a one-time bribe from a criminal to avoid prosecution US
- The term is also used as a verb, as in “I scored him for $1,500.” — The Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption, p. 66, 1972
- It was not his style to score prostitutes. — Leonard Shecter and William Phillips, On the Pad, p. 24, 1973
- (of a horse or rider) to win a race AUSTRALIA
- In a bustling finish, Dale got Shiny Star up to score by a nose from the favourite[.] — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 72, 1969
- He led all the way to score in what I call fine style. — Joe Brown, Just for the Record, p. 14, 1984
▶ score on to get the best of someone verbally US- — American Speech, p. 275, December 1963: “American Indian student slang”
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