score-off

See also: score off

English

Etymology

Deverbal from score off.

Noun

score-off (plural score-offs)

1. (rare) The action or result of scoring off someone (a rebuttal, a point won).
   • 1930, Wyndham Lewis, The Apes of God, page 354:

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

   • 1955, Oireachtas [Irish Parliament], Díosbóireachtaí párlaiminte: tuairisc oifigiúil [Parliamentary debates: official report], volume 150, p. 294:

     […] 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.