scores

Pluralscores

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of score.

   The judges posted their scores on the board at the end of the round.

   Musicians study old scores to understand what the composer intended.

   Note

   One plural serves every noun meaning of score, and the context decides which is meant. It can be the tallies on a scoreboard, the grades on a test, or the older count of twenty. In ancient archery and gunnery that count also measured a distance of twenty yards, and elsewhere a weight of twenty pounds. The counting sense lives on in the £20 cannabis slang.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of score.

   The striker scores almost every week for her club.

   A careful editor scores the manuscript with light pencil marks.

   Note

   The verb form shares its spelling with the noun plural, so grammar tells them apart: she scores twice is a verb, and her scores is a noun. It carries the verb's full range: cutting a notch or groove, keeping a tally, earning points or academic credit, winning at gambling, and getting something wanted. Most of these meanings can take an object or stand alone.

3. 3
   nounslangUKcountable

   A bag of cannabis with a street price of £20.

   He sold a couple of scores behind the pub on Friday night.

   She kept a few scores tucked inside her jacket for the festival.

   Note

   UK street slang, and it keeps its final s even for a single bag: a buyer asks for "a scores", not "a score". It belongs to a dealing vocabulary alongside benners, and Central Cee's "Moi" (2024) pairs it in a rhyme with benz, another dealing term. Its price comes from the old count of twenty behind the plural of score. Outside that setting, use it only when quoting someone.

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