high score
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- noun
- /haɪ skɔr/
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mejor puntuación
- Playing at the arcade, I managed to beat the high score for the first time.
- significantly higher scores
- high score reflects
- higher score representing
Sapio, you got the one of the ten highest scores in your math SAT and we're going to give you a free ride to Rutgers Engineering School.
- Sapio, you got the one of the ten highest scores in your math SAT and we're going to give you a free ride to Rutgers Engineering School.
- I'm just chasing the high score, 'cause his his, his goal was to be the ace of aces.
- When we see your score for the DD Yeah, MVP score for the Dance Machine has surpassed our high score.
Examples
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DUDE, YOU GOT THE HIGH SCORE.
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Maybe we just need to beat his high score.
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You got the highest score in history.
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There goes our high score.
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JOHN is lost in an intense battle, going for a new high score at "Missile Command."
Fiction book (1991) -
You got the highest score on the midterm?
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We'll clean it up together, as soon as I've beat my high score.
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Now I just want the high score on this setup here so that everybody, whoever does this demo can know that I was better than them.
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Vance, you're gonna beat your high score.
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New high score!
How High
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'high' (large/above normal) applied to 'score' (points) yields 'a large number of points' or the top points in a game. This literal adjective+noun combination follows common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun high score comes from the world of games: the score is the number you get and the high score is the number shown at the top of the board or screen. One clear image is an arcade machine with a big number and a name at the very top, which explains why it means 'the highest number of points' in a game.