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to score

to score

79 9.9
To succeed in persuading someone to have sex with you
  • verb
  • /skɔr/
  • Offensive
translation icon : ligar (con alguien)
  • You're just jealous 'cause I'm about to score.
  • try to score
  • going to score
  • score chicks

It was spring break and Kaden Young was looking to score, and he succeeded, only to pay with his life.

Examples

  • You want to "score" with a young lady, you take her to see "Dracula."

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Dammit, this always happens! I think I'm gonna score, and then I never score!

    Fiction book (1996)
  • And then, check this out, he does this thing to me where he makes it so I can score better with the ladies.

  • Boy, it sure is hard to score. Huh huh huh.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • I thought it was just an easy place to score.

  • Even Hank is scoring on ladies' night.

  • I'm gonna score with Vicki tonight.

  • He shoots and scores with the ladies.

  • She looks hot and she lets you score like a madman.

  • At the party last night, he managed to score with that attractive girl he had been eyeing.

Synonyms

to make
vsto score
  • NSFW
662 9.9

Informal word for peeing, having a bowel movement, or having sex

is about successfully persuading someone rather than using an indirect phrase
to get it on
vsto score
  • Offensive
125 9.3

To have sex with someone

focuses on convincing someone to do it rather than the act itself
to seduce
vsto score
  • NSFW
99 6.5

Persuade someone to have sex by charming or tempting them

emphasizes the success of persuading rather than the charming method
to sex
vsto score
  • NSFW
5 5.1

To have physical contact with someone for pleasure, usually in a casual way

highlights persuading someone not simply the general act

Idioms

11 4.9

Understand what really happens in a situation, often when it is bad

to settle a score
  • Offensive
2 6.2

To get revenge for something someone did to you

1 6.9

In large numbers, often dozens at a time

A way to say eighty-seven years ago, used by Abraham Lincoln at the start of the Gettysburg Address

on what score
  • Archaic
8.3

Asking what reason someone gave for a decision

Phrasal Verbs

Get praise or approval from others through your words and actions

To be seen as very strange in a way people notice

Get an advantage over other companies or people

7.4

To get an advantage over someone by doing better than them

5.2

To draw a line through written words to show they are wrong

Compounds

18 2.7

The highest number of points a player gets in a game or competition

musical score
  • Specialized
5 3.7

Written music that shows all the parts for singers and instruments on separate lines

2 1.4

A game in which neither team has any points

Numbers showing how many runs each team has in a game

The number of points each team has in a basketball game

Apgar score
  • Specialized
1 5.4

A quick test on a newborn to check heart rate, breathing, skin colour, muscle tone, and reflexes

The number of goals or points each team has in a football game

The total number of points a player or team gets in a game of bowling

1 9.9

Seventy years that people often use to mean a typical human lifespan

4.2

A summary showing runs or points each team scored in each period of a game

score paper
  • Specialized
5.6

Paper that has printed lines for writing music notes

Wilks score
  • Jargon
8.4

A number that compares weightlifting results for people with different body weights

Surface Forms

score infinitive
scored past
scored past participle
scoring present participle
scores third person singular

Etymology

To score (slang verb) meaning to succeed with someone comes from the same idea of adding a point to your tally, so it means to get a win or success in that social situation.