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score
noun- a robbery; the proceeds of a robbery US
- I was real crazy by then. “Let’s pull a score?” I said. — Hal Ellson, Duke, p. 68, 1949
- I’d say, “C’mon, man, let’s go pull a score.” — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 127, 1965
- Giant scores should be stored in a garage-type warehouse equipped with freezers and its whereabouts known only to the Free Food Gang. — The Digger Papers, p. 15, August 1968
- [W]e’d got away with it, hadn’t we, we’d got the score, and Tony hadn’t grassed and the Securicor man hadn’t snuffed it. — Ted Lewis, Jack Carter’s Law, p. 21, 1974
- a one-time payment from a criminal to the police to avoid prosecution US
- — The Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption, 1972
- A “score” is a one-time payment that an officer might solicit from, for example, a motorist or a narcotics violator. — The Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption, p. 66, 1972
- a sale, especially of drugs or something else illegal US, 1914
- Dincher spoke of the big score he’d make so that he might fill his life with music. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 170, 1952
- [T]hey go on looking, fabricating preposterous lies about their big scores[.] — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 20, 1953
- Divine Right paid the man with cash he’d got from a big grass score that morning[.] — Gurney Norman, Divine Right’s Trip (Last Whole Earth Catalog), p. 9, 1971
- a prostitute’s customer US
- And I could spot the scores easily–the men who paid other men sex-money[.] — John Rechy, City of Night, p. 35, 1963
- The “scores” frantically wander around the area trying to select the youngest and best-looking hustler. — Johnny Shearer, The Male Hustler, p. 44, 1966
- a sexual conquest US
- A score like that, a man could just live on his reputation. — M*A*S*H, 1970
- twenty pounds, twenty dollars UK, 1929
- After failing to borrow a “score” from me he departed, and I was on my own. — James Holledge, The Great Australian Gamble, p. 105, 1966
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop it sweet, p. 79, 1977
- — Ned Wallish, The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 72, 1989
- — Brian McDonald (writing of 1960s London underground), Elephant Boys, p. 203, 2000
- in betting, odds of 20–1 UK
- — John McCririck, John McCririck’s World of Betting, p. 112, 1991
▶ keep score
to perform the paperwork required of a police team US- “Want to drive or keep score?” asked Light after roll call[.] — Joseph Wambaugh, The New Centurions, p. 137, 1970
▶ the score
the state of affairs, the current situation US, 1938
Often in the verb phrase “know the score”.- You know the score, dad. — Alan Bleasdale, Boys From the Blackstuff, 1982
- Something passed across Zaffir’s face. He knew the score. — Greg Williams, Diamond Geezers, p. 9, 1997
- “He knows the score ...” he tries to say. — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 117, 2001
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